Proverbs 18:1 Parallel: Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

New International Version
An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels.

New Living Translation
Unfriendly people care only about themselves; they lash out at common sense.

English Standard Version
Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.

Berean Study Bible
He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.

New American Standard Bible
One who separates himself seeks his own desire; He quarrels against all sound wisdom.

NASB 1995
He who separates himself seeks his own desire, He quarrels against all sound wisdom.

NASB 1977
He who separates himself seeks his own desire, He quarrels against all sound wisdom.

Amplified Bible
He who [willfully] separates himself [from God and man] seeks his own desire, He quarrels against all sound wisdom.

Christian Standard Bible
One who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound wisdom.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
One who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.

Contemporary English Version
It's selfish and stupid to think only of yourself and to sneer at people who have sense.

Good News Translation
People who do not get along with others are interested only in themselves; they will disagree with what everyone else knows is right.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A loner is out to get what he wants for himself. He opposes all sound reasoning.

International Standard Version
Whoever isolates himself pursues selfish ends; he resists all sound advice.

NET Bible
One who has isolated himself seeks his own desires; he rejects all sound judgment.

King James Bible
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

New King James Version
A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment.

King James 2000 Bible
A man, having separated himself, seeks his own desire, and rages against all sound wisdom.

New Heart English Bible
An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

World English Bible
An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

American King James Version
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddles with all wisdom.

American Standard Version
He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, And rageth against all sound wisdom.

A Faithful Version
He who isolates himself seeks his own desire; he rails against all sound wisdom.

Darby Bible Translation
He that separateth himself seeketh [his] pleasure, he is vehement against all sound wisdom.

English Revised Version
He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, and rageth against all sound wisdom.

Webster's Bible Translation
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

Geneva Bible of 1587
For the desire thereof hee will separate himselfe to seeke it, and occupie himselfe in all wisdome.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Who so hath an earnest desire to wysdome he will sequester him selfe to seeke it, and occupie him selfe in all stedfastnesse & sounde doctrine.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Who so hath pleasure to sowe discorde, piketh a quarell in euery thinge.

Literal Standard Version
He who is separated seeks [his own] desire, "" He interferes with all wisdom.

Young's Literal Translation
For an object of desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.

Smith's Literal Translation
He separating himself will seek according to desire; he will be irritated with every purpose.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that hath a mind to depart from a friend seeketh occasions: he shall ever be subject to reproach.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Whoever has a will to withdraw from a friend, seeks occasions; he shall be reproached at all times.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
In his idleness one meditates on lust and mocks at good instruction.

Lamsa Bible
WHEN a man is inactive he imagines lust and mocks at good instruction.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, And snarlest against all sound wisdom.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
A man who wishes to separate from friends seeks excuses; but at all times he will be liable to reproach.