Contemplative Bible Reading

Proverbs 1:19 (New International Version)

Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.

I love this phrase, all who go after ill-gotten gain.

In an unusual case, the NIV has a more poetic phrase than the King James Version. The King James uses the phrase So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain.

The words ill-gotten gain are only in the NIV.

The message is also apt. Those who seek after the goods of others only destroy their own lives.