Verse 21

That make a man an offender by a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  De som sår tvil hos mennesker med ord, setter feller for den som irettesetter i porten, og forkaster den rettferdige med uholdbare anklager.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  De som får en mann til å synde for et ord, og legger snarer for ham som irettesetter i porten, og bøyer de rettferdige bort fra et intet.

• Norsk King James

  De som anklager en mann for et ord, og legger en snare for ham som handler rett i porten, og snur bort den rettferdige for noe uten betydning.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  de som dømmer en mann skyldig ved et ord, de som legger feller for den som irettesetter i porten, og jager den uskyldige bort.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  de som fordømmer et menneske med et ord, setter feller for den som irettesetter ved byporten, og ved tomme ord jager den rettferdige.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  De som gjør en mann skyldig for et ord, og legger en snare for ham som irettesetter i porten, og vender den rettferdige av for en bagatell.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  De som gjør en mann skyldig for et ord, og som legger en snare for ham som irettesetter ved byporten, og forvrenger den rettferdige for en bagatell.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  De som gjør en mann skyldig for et ord, og legger en snare for ham som irettesetter i porten, og vender den rettferdige av for en bagatell.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  de som dømmer mann med ord, og de som fanger den som irettesetter i porten, og de som med tomhet vender rettferdige til side.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Those who cause humanity to sin with a word, who set traps for the one who rebukes in the gate, and who twist justice by making the righteous nothing, will be judged.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  de som får en mann til å bli skyldig for et ord, de som stikker en felle for den som irettesetter i porten, og de som med falskhet forvrenger rett for den rettferdige.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  som holde et Menneske for en Synder for Ordets Skyld, og stille Snarer for den, som straffer i Porten, og fordrive den Retfærdige i det Øde.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  De som gjør et menneske skyldig for et ord, som legger en felle for ham som irettesetter i porten, og som avviser den rettferdige for et intet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  de som gjør en mann til en forbryter i sin sak, og legger en snare for ham som refser i porten, og viker de rettferdige bort med en bagatell.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  De som får mennesker til å synde med ord, og for en irettesetter i porten legger de feller, og de vender rettferdige bort i tomhet.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  de som gjør en mann skyldig i sin sak, og legger en felle for den som irettesetter i porten, og som vender de rettferdige bort med ingenting.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  De som gir hjelp til en mann i en urett sak, og som legger et nett for føttene til den som avsier dom på torget, tar bort en manns rett uten grunn.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  soch as laboure to drawe me vnto synne: and yt disceaue him, which reproueth them in the gate, & soch as turne good personnes to vanite.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Which made a man to sinne in ye worde, and tooke him in a snare: which reproued them in the gate, and made the iust to fall without cause.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Making a man to sinne in the worde, and that toke him in a snare, whiche reproued them in the open place, and they that haue turned the cause of the righteous to naught.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

• World English Bible (2000)

  who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.

Referenced Verses

• Amos 5:10-12 : 10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly. 11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
• Amos 7:10-17 : 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words. 11 For thus Amos says, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land. 12 Also Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: 13 But do not prophesy again anymore at Bethel: for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the royal house. 14 Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit: 15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel. 16 Now therefore hear the word of the LORD: You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac. 17 Therefore thus says the LORD; Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you shall die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity from his land.
• Mic 2:6-7 : 6 Do not prophesy, they say to those who prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they may not take shame. 7 O you who are named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD restricted? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?
• Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
• Matt 22:15 : 15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle him in his talk.
• Matt 26:15 : 15 And said to them, What will you give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they agreed with him for thirty pieces of silver.
• Luke 11:53-54 : 53 And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: 54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.
• Acts 3:14 : 14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted to you;
• Jas 5:6 : 6 You have condemned and killed the righteous; and he does not resist you.
• Judg 12:6 : 6 Then they said to him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not pronounce it right. Then they took him, and killed him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites.
• Prov 28:21 : 21 To show partiality is not good; for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
• Isa 32:7 : 7 The schemes of the miser are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks what is right.
• Jer 18:18 : 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
• Jer 20:7-9 : 7 O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived: you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am in derision daily, everyone mocks me. 8 For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach to me, and a derision, daily. 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak anymore in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding back, and I could not stay. 10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, they say, and we will report it. All my familiar friends watched for my faltering, saying, Perhaps he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
• Jer 26:2-8 : 2 Thus says the LORD: Stand in the court of the LORD's house and speak to all the cities of Judah, who come to worship in the LORD's house, all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not omit a word: 3 Perhaps they will listen and each man will turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the evil I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds. 4 And you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, 5 To listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent to you, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened; 6 Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. 7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD. 8 Now it happened, when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, You shall surely die.
• Ezek 13:19 : 19 Will you profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people who hear your lies?