Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Parallel translations
- WEB Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.
- BSB Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
- NKJV Fools, because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.
- NASB ¶Fools, because of their rebellious way, And because of their guilty deeds, were afflicted.
- NLT Some were fools; they rebelled and suffered for their sins.
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Quick answer
Fools suffered affliction because of their rebellious ways and sins.
Overview
The third picture introduces 'fools' brought low by sickness as a result of their own iniquity. In biblical terms a fool is one who lives as though God does not matter, and such folly bears bitter fruit. This honest portrayal of sin's consequences heightens the wonder of the deliverance to come and points to the Great Physician who heals both body and soul.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Lam 3:39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
- Prov 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
- Ps 92:6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
- Jer 2:19Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
- Isa 57:17–18For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
- Ps 14:1The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
- Prov 7:7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
- Isa 65:6–7Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
- Ps 38:1–8O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
- Num 21:5–9And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
- Num 11:33–34And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
- Prov 7:22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
- Num 12:10–13And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
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