For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man's wife preys on your very life.
NIV
For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread, and the adulteress stalks and snares [as with a hook] the precious life [of a man].
AMP
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.
KJV
When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds its judges. If it is not he, then who is it?
NIV
The earth is given into the hands of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges [so that they are blinded to justice]. If it is not [God], who then is it [responsible for all this inequality]?
AMP
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
KJV
His children are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
NIV
His children are far from safety; [involved in their father's ruin] they are crushed in the [court of justice in the city's] gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
AMP
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
KJV
As for the villages with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its surrounding settlements, in Dibon and its settlements, in Jekabzeel and its villages
NIV
As for the villages with their fields, some people of Judah dwelt in Kiriath-arba, Dibon, and Jekabzeel, and their villages
AMP
And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjatharba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof,
KJV
