New Revised Standard Version
As the ancient proverb says, ‘Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness’; but my hand shall not be against you.

Contemporary English Version
An old proverb says, "Only evil people do evil things," and so I won't harm you.

New American Bible
As the old proverb says, ‘From the wicked comes wickedness.’ Thus I will not lay a hand on you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As also it is said in the old proverb: From the wicked shall wickedness come forth: therefore my hand shall not be upon thee. After whom dost thou come out, O king of Israel?

As also it is said in the old proverb: From the wicked shall wickedness come forth: therefore my hand shall not be upon thee. After whom dost thou come out, O king of Israel?

Wickedness

Matthew 7:16-18 By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? . . .

Matthew 12:33,34 Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known. . . .

Matthew 15:19 For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.