Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G Message"But if you warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil way—they will die in their guilt, but you will have saved your own soul."
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.G"But if you warn the wicked one and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity—but you will have saved your own nephesh."
KJV
King James VersionYet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleBut if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.
Footnotes
Nephesh (נֶפֶשׁ) here is not the Greek immortal soul but the whole-person self—the living being, the life, the breathing creature. 'Saving your nephesh' means the prophet's entire personhood is delivered from bloodguilt. The watchman's faithfulness does not save the wicked; it saves the watchman himself. This is the paradox of the prophetic vocation: obedience is its own vindication regardless of outcome. FOG uses nephesh to carry the full Hebrew weight; FOG Message renders 'soul' in its holistic biblical sense rather than its later Greek dualistic sense.
