shall be recompensed in the earth. This was the promise for that Dispensation (Psalms 37), not for this. See 1 Peter 4:18 and App-63. Rightly divide the Dispensations, and all difficulties are removed.
the sinner. a sinner. Hebrew. chata'. App-44.
Verse Proverbs 11:31. _BEHOLD, THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE RECOMPENSED IN THE_ _EARTH, C._] The _Septuagint, Syrian_, and _Arabic_ read this verse as follows: "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, wher...
The sense would appear to be, “The righteous is requited, i. e., is punished for his lesser sins, or as a discipline; much more the wicked, etc.” Compare 1 Peter 4:18....
CHAPTER 11 THE CONTRAST CONTINUED The continued contrast in this chapter between the righteous and the wicked contains many precious gems, sweet to faith and wholesome for instruction. In the second v...
PROVERBS 11. The orthodox view of strictly retributive justice found in Proverbs 10:24 f., Proverbs 11:27 is represented by a further group (Proverbs 11:2;...
_shall be recompensed_ This might mean, shall receive, in each case, the return due to him; the righteous shall be _rewarded_(as the same Heb. word is rendered in Proverbs 13:13) and the wicked _punis...
BEHOLD, &C.— If David, if Job, if the apostles and choicest servants of God, have been tried in this world by affliction, what must await the impious and the sinners? If God does not even pardon the j...
TEXT Proverbs 11:22-31 22. As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, So is a fair woman that is without discretion. 23. The desire of the righteous is only good; But the expectation of the wicked is...
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner. BEHOLD, THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE RECOMPENSED IN THE EARTH: MUCH MORE THE WICKED AND THE SINNER. "Recomp...
A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. Under this prohibition of "a false balance" is forbidden all fraud, by whatsoever suns of deception it may be committed,...
1. False weights were exceedingly common (Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:10; Amos 8:5)....
God is fair with everybody. The good man will receive good things. God will provide for him. God is also fair with evil people. They will receive a fair punishment....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 11 V1 God hates false measurements. God loves honest measurements. v
BEHOLD THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE RECOMPENSED IN THE EARTH. — That is, even he shall be punished for his misdeeds, as were Jacob, Moses, David; how much more shall “the wicked and the sinner.” The LXX. tr...
הֵ֣ן צַ֭דִּיק בָּ † אָ֣רֶץ יְשֻׁלָּ֑ם אַ֝֗ף...
CHAPTER 12 GOODNESS "The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them." Proverbs 11:6 "An unjust man is the abomination of the righteous, and he who goes right in his way is the abomination of t...
Verse Proverbs 11:7. The antithesis of this proverb is between the condition described and that of one not described, that is to say, the expectation or hope of the wicked lies wholly on this side of...
Behold, the righteous shall be (t) recompensed upon the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner. (t) Will be punished as he deserves, (1 Peter 4:18)....
_Receive. Punishment, for almost inevitable faults, or be treated according to his deserts. Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic, "if the just be hardly saved, where shall the impious and the sinner appear?...
REFLECTIONS. I BESEECH thee, gracious Master, to give me a right understanding in all things. Taught by thee, I shall then discover, that thou art here folded up in this chapter. And however, as so ma...
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
BEHOLD, THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE RECOMPENSED IN THE EARTH,.... Which Aben Ezra understands of the recompence of their good works. There is a reward for the righteous, and which they have now in keeping,...
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner. Ver. 31. _The righteous shall be recompensed,_] _i.e., _ Chastened, afflicted, "judged of the Lord, that...
_Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed_ That is, chastised, or punished for his sins; which the next clause shows to be Solomon's meaning here; _in the earth_ Whereby he intimates, that all the r...
V. 31. BEHOLD, THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE RECOMPENSED IN THE EARTH, that is, if even he will not reach a stage when he will be free from suffering in this world, MUCH MORE THE WICKED AND THE SINNER, the u...
10-31 This is the description of a virtuous woman of those days, but the general outlines equally suit every age and nation. She is very careful to recommend herself to her husband's esteem and affec...
THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE RECOMPENSED, i.e. punished for his sins, as appears from the next clause; the general word being here used of this one particular, by a synecdoche. _In the earth_; whereby he in...
Proverbs 11:31 righteous H6662 recompensed H7999 (H8792) earth H776 ungodly H7563 sinner H2398 (H8802)...
THE RIGHTEOUS SEEK WHAT IS GOOD, FLOURISH BECAUSE THEY HAVE TRUE LIFE, PRODUCING ITS FRUIT, AND WILL BE RECOMPENSED ON EARTH. THE UNRIGHTEOUS SEARCH AFTER WHAT IS BAD, TRUST IN RICHES, ARE BROUGHT LOW...
Proverbs 11:31 I. God is impartial. He is no respecter of persons, but causing His sun to shine on the evil and the good, and His rain to fall on the just and on the unjust; and so rewarding every man...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The ways of righteousness are plain and safe and in them we may enjoy a holy security. The ways of wickedness are dangerous...
Proverbs 11:1. _A false balance is an abomination to the Lord._ A dishonest tradesman here receives a hard stroke. Though his weight be but little short of the standard; yet by using it a thousand tim...
_Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth._ JUDGMENT HERE Two ways of explaining this text. 1. Of the happiness which God has appointed for goodness, it has pleased Him that some por...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 11:23 The ultimate destinies of the WICKED and the RIGHTEOUS (e.g., vv. Proverbs 11:23 and...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 11:31. Miller transposes this verse and reads, “Behold the righteous on earth shall be recompensed,” etc. ON EARTH may be placed either with “the righteous,” or with “recomp...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 11:1 A FALSE BALANCE; literally, _balances of deceit _(Proverbs 20:23). The repetition of the injunctions of Deuteronomy 25:13,...
Shall we turn now in Proverbs to the eleventh chapter. Now we have come in the Proverbs to individual little sayings of wisdom. Each one is separate and complete in itself and unrelated to the next. S...
1 Corinthians 11:30; 1 Kings 13:24; 1 Peter 4:17; 1 Peter 4:18;...
Recompensed — Punished for his sins....
Are the righteous rewarded in this life or in the next one? PROBLEM: Here Solomon speaks as though the godly person receives his reward in this life, claiming, “the righteous will be recompensed on th...