Proverbs 14:14

NET ©

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

NIV ©

The faithless will be fully repaid for their ways, and the good man rewarded for his.

NASB ©

The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways, But a good man will be satisfied with his.

NLT ©

Backsliders get what they deserve; good people receive their reward.

MSG ©

A mean person gets paid back in meanness, a gracious person in grace.

BBE ©

He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.

NRSV ©

The perverse get what their ways deserve, and the good, what their deeds deserve.

NKJV ©

The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways, But a good man will be satisfied from above.

KJV
The backslider
<05472> (8803)
in heart
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shall be filled
<07646> (8799)
with his own ways
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and a good
<02896>
man
<0376>
[shall be satisfied] from himself.
HEBREW
bwj
<02896>
sya
<0376>
wylemw
<05921>
bl
<03820>
gwo
<05472>
ebvy
<07646>
wykrdm (14:14)
<01870>
LXXM
twn
<3588>  
T-GPF
eautou
<1438>  
D-GSM
odwn
<3598>  
N-GPF
plhsyhsetai
 
V-FPI-3S
yrasukardiov
 
A-NSM
apo
<575>  
PREP
de
<1161>  
PRT
twn
<3588>  
T-GPN
dianohmatwn
<1270>  
N-GPN
autou
<846>  
D-GSM
anhr
<435>  
N-NSM
agayov
<18>  
A-NSM
NET © [draft] ITL
The backslider
<05472>
will be paid back from his own ways, but
<01870>
a good
<02896>
person
<0376>
will be
<07646>
rewarded for his.
NET © Notes

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.