Proverbs 12:21

NET ©

The righteous do not encounter 1  any harm, 2  but the wicked are filled with calamity. 3 

NIV ©

No harm befalls the righteous, but the wicked have their fill of trouble.

NASB ©

No harm befalls the righteous, But the wicked are filled with trouble.

NLT ©

No real harm befalls the godly, but the wicked have their fill of trouble.

MSG ©

No evil can overwhelm a good person, but the wicked have their hands full of it.

BBE ©

No trouble will come to upright men, but sinners will be full of evil.

NRSV ©

No harm happens to the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.

NKJV ©

No grave trouble will overtake the righteous, But the wicked shall be filled with evil.

KJV
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NET © [draft] ITL
The righteous
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do not
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encounter
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any
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harm
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with calamity
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NET © Notes

1 tn Heb “is not allowed to meet to the righteous.”

2 tn Heb “all calamity.” The proper nuance of אָוֶן (’aven) is debated. It is normally understood metonymically (effect) as “harm; trouble,” that is, the result/effect of wickedness (e.g., Gen 50:20). Rashi, a Jewish scholar who lived a.d. 1040-1105, took it as “wickedness,” its primary meaning; “the righteous will not be caught up in wickedness.”

3 tn The expression רָע מָלְאוּ (malÿ’u ra’, “to be full of evil”) means (1) the wicked do much evil or (2) the wicked experience much calamity (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).