Matthew 12:43
King James Version (KJV)
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
In context
41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Matthew 12:43 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
- WEB World English Bible
- “When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, and doesn’t find it.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
- ASV American Standard Version
- But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 'And, when the unclean spirit may go forth from the man, it doth walk through dry places seeking rest, and doth not find;
- DBY Darby Translation
- But when the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and does not find [it].
- WBS Webster Bible
- When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and he findeth none.