Psalm 10:5 Prosperous or Grievous?

What’s In Your Bible Psalm 10:5 Prosperous or Grievous?

Psalms 10:5

KJB - the wicked?..His ways are always GRIEVOUS

NIV - the wicked?..His ways are always PROSPEROUS

NKJV - the wicked?..His ways are always PROSPERING

ESV - the wicked?..His ways PROSPER at all times

HCSB - the wicked?..His ways are always SECURE

Jehovah Witness NWT ...His ways KEEP PROSPERING

Catholic St. Joseph New American Bible...His ways are SECURE at all times

The NKJV has translated this same word, # 2342 ghool (gheel) as "grieved" in Jeremiah 5:3 and as "violent" in Jeremiah 23:19.

The word means "to afflict, to be in pain, to travail, anguish and to wound". It never means to be "prosperous".

1395 Wycliffe's BE DEFOULED

Coverdale FILTHIE

Matthew's FILTHIE

The Great GREEVOUS

The Geneva PROSPER

Bishops' Bibles GREEVOUS

The Thomson Bible 1808 POLLUTED

The Longman Version ALWAYS EVIL.

The Boothroyd Bible 1853 PERVERSE

Lamsa's Syriac always WEAK

Douay-Rheims ARE FILTHY

The Amplified Bible ARE GRIEVOUS

The Hebraic Roots Bible ARE PERVERTED

The Bill Bible 1671 GRIEVOUS

Webster's 1833, Sharpe Bible 1883, Ancient Hebrew Bible 1907 GRIEVOUS

Foreign language Bibles:

Spanish Antigua Versión VICIOSOS

Reina Valera SON TORCIDOS = his ways are twisted.

1569 Spanish Sagradas Escrituras ATORMENTAN = cause torment

Portuguese A Sagrada Biblia ATORMENTAM = torment

Portuguese Almeida Corrigida ATORMENTAM = torment

Italian Diodati SON PROFANE = profane

Modern Greek Bible says his ways DEFILE

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Dr. Steven A. Hite