Proverbs 14:14

The backslider ¹  will be paid back ²  from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded ³  for his.

Pr 1:31; Pr 1:32; Pr 12:14; Pr 14:10; Jer 2:19; Jer 8:5; Jer 17:5; Eze 22:31; Ho 4:16; Zep 1:6; Joh 4:14; 2Co 1:12; Ga 6:4,8; Heb 3:12; 2Pe 2:20-22

¹ tn Heb “a turning away of heart.” The genitive לֵב (lev, “heart”) functions as an attributive adjective: “a backslidden heart.” The term סוּג (sug) means “to move away; to move backwards; to depart; to backslide” (BDB 690 s.v. I סוּג). This individual is the one who backslides, that is, who departs from the path of righteousness.

² tn Heb “will be filled”; cf. KJV, ASV. The verb (“to be filled, to be satisfied”) here means “to be repaid,” that is, to partake in his own evil ways. His faithlessness will come back to haunt him.

³ tn The phrase “will be rewarded” does not appear in the Hebrew but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.