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Proverbs 21:18
18When trouble comes, wicked people receive the pain instead of righteous people.
Proverbs 21:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
- New International Version (NIV)The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the unfaithful for the upright.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and the traitor for the upright.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, And the unfaithful for the upright.
Context of Proverbs 21:18
16If someone decides to turn away from wisdom, he will soon be in his grave. 17Anyone who loves only pleasure will become poor. People who love wine and big feasts will never become rich. When trouble comes, wicked people receive the pain instead of righteous people. 19It is better to live alone in a desert than to live with a wife who quarrels and complains. 20Wise people store valuable things and good food in their houses. But foolish people waste everything immediately.
Read all of Proverbs 21Proverbs 21:18 word by word
כֹּ֣פֶר לַצַּדִּ֣יק רָשָׁ֑ע וְתַ֖חַת יְשָׁרִ֣ים בּוֹגֵֽד׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 21:18
- Proverbs 11:8Righteous people escape from trouble. The trouble happens to wicked people instead.
- Isaiah 43:3I am the Lord, your God, so I will rescue you. I am Israel's Holy God, your Saviour. I gave Egypt as the price to buy you back. I gave Ethiopia and Seba to their enemies, so that you could be free.
- Isaiah 53:4But he took away all our weakness! He carried our pain for us. We thought that he was receiving punishment for his own sins. We thought that God was causing him to suffer.
- Isaiah 55:8The Lord says, ‘Remember! My thoughts are not the same as your thoughts. The way that you do things is not the same as the way that I do things.
- 1 Peter 3:18Christ himself always did what was right. But he received pain on behalf of people who do what is wrong. He died once to take away all those wrong things. He did that to bring you near to God. People killed Christ's body, but God's Spirit made him alive again.
Commentaries on Proverbs 21:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous - God often in his judgments cuts off the wicked, in order to prevent them from destroying the righteous. And in general, we find that the wicked fall into the traps and pits they have digged for the righteous.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18Compare the marginal reference. Evil doers seem to draw down the wrath of God upon their heads, and so become, as it were, the scapegoats of the comparatively righteous.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18Verse 18 The righteous is often delivered out of trouble, and the wicked comes in his stead, and so seems as a ransom for him.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18The wicked will get caught in the traps they set for others (Proverbs 26:27; see also 11:8).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. (Compare Pr 11:8). By suffering what they had devised for the righteous, or brought on them, the wicked became their ransom, in the usual sense of substitutes (compare Jos 7:26; Es 7:9).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 21
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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