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Proverbs 10:16
16Righteous people receive life as their wages. Wicked people receive only punishment.
Proverbs 10:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
- New International Version (NIV)The wages of the righteous is life, but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The labor of the righteous leads to life, The wages of the wicked to sin.
Context of Proverbs 10:16
14Wise people store knowledge in their minds. But when foolish people speak, trouble is near. 15Money keeps rich people safe, like a strong city. But poor people die because they have no one to help them. Righteous people receive life as their wages. Wicked people receive only punishment. 17People who listen when people warn them are on the road to life. But those who refuse to listen are on a different road. 18If you hate somebody but you try to hide it, you are telling lies. And if you say false things about other people, you are a fool.
Read all of Proverbs 10Proverbs 10:16 word by word
פְּעֻלַּ֣ת צַדִּ֣יק לְחַיִּ֑ים תְּבוּאַ֖ת רָשָׁ֣ע לְחַטָּֽאת׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 10:16
- Proverbs 11:30The good things that a righteous person does bring life. A person who saves people's lives shows that he is wise.
- Isaiah 3:10Tell the righteous people that they are in a good place. They will enjoy the results of the good things that they have done.
- Matthew 7:17Good fruit grows on a tree that is good. Bad fruit grows on a tree that is not good.
- Matthew 12:33Then Jesus said, ‘To have good fruit you must have a good tree. If you have a bad tree, then you will get bad fruit from it. You can know all about a tree by the kind of fruit that it makes.
- Matthew 15:19Evil thoughts come out from people's minds. As a result, they do wrong things. They murder people. They have sex with another man's wife. They have sex in other wrong ways. They rob people. They tell lies about other people. They insult people.
- Romans 6:23If you serve sin as your master, it will pay you with death. But if you belong to our Lord Jesus Christ, God gives you a gift! That gift is life with God for ever.
- 2 Timothy 2:17It causes people to become sick in their spirits. More and more people become sick as a result. Hymenaeus and Philetus are two of the people who teach that kind of false message.
- 2 Timothy 3:13Bad people like that will become even worse. Some of them will teach a false message and people will believe their lies. Those false teachers even believe their own lies!
Commentaries on Proverbs 10:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16The labor of the righteous - The good man labors that he may be able to support life; this is his first object: and then to have something to divide with the poor; this is his next object. The fruit of the wicked to sin - This man lives to eat and drink, and his property he spends in riot and excess. God's blessings are cursed to him.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16A warning against the conclusion to seek wealth first of all, which men of lower natures might draw from Proverbs 10:15. “Quaerenda pecunia primum est; Virtus post nummos?” Horace, Ep. 1. i. 53. Such an inference is met by the experience, that while wealth gotten by honest industry is not only, like inherited riches a defense, but also a blessing, the seeming profit (rather than “fruit”) of the wicked tends to further sin 1 Timothy 6:10, and so to…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16Verse 16 Perhaps a righteous man has no more than what he works hard for, but that labour tends to life.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. The industry of the righteous is alone truly successful, while the earnings of the wicked tempt and lead to sin.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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