God’s Word Translation
Proverbs 2:22
22But wicked people will be cut off from the land and treacherous people will be torn from it.
Proverbs 2:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
- New International Version (NIV)but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
- English Standard Version (ESV)but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
- New King James Version (NKJV)But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.
Context of Proverbs 2:22
20So walk in the way of good people and stay on the paths of righteous people. 21Decent people will live in the land. People of integrity will remain in it. But wicked people will be cut off from the land and treacherous people will be torn from it.
Read all of Proverbs 2Proverbs 2:22 word by word
וּ֭רְשָׁעִים מֵאֶ֣רֶץ יִכָּרֵ֑תוּ וּ֝בוֹגְדִ֗ים יִסְּח֥וּ מִמֶּֽנָּה׃ פRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 2:22
- Proverbs 5:22A wicked person will be trapped by his own wrongs, and he will be caught in the ropes of his own sin.
- Job 18:16His roots dry up under him. His branches wither over him.
- Job 21:30On the day of disaster the wicked person is spared. On the day of ⌞God’s⌟ anger he is rescued.
- Psalms 37:20But wicked people will disappear. The Lord’s enemies will vanish like the best part of a meadow. They will vanish like smoke.
- Psalms 52:5But God will ruin you forever. He will grab you and drag you out of your tent. He will pull your roots out of this world of the living. Selah
- Psalms 104:35May sinners vanish from the world. May there no longer be any wicked people. Praise the Lord, my soul! Hallelujah!
- Psalms 145:20The Lord protects everyone who loves him, but he will destroy all wicked people.
- Isaiah 3:10Tell the righteous that blessings will come to them. They will taste the fruit of their labor.
- Deuteronomy 7:22Little by little he will force these nations out of your way. You won’t be able to wipe them out quickly. Otherwise, you would be overrun with wild animals.
- Deuteronomy 28:64Then the Lord will scatter you among all the people of the world, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will serve gods made of wood and stone that neither you nor your ancestors ever knew.
Commentaries on Proverbs 2:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22Transgressors - בוגדים bogedim . The garment men, the hypocrites; those who act borrowed characters, who go under a eloak; dissemblers. All such shall be rooted out of the land; they shall not be blessed with posterity. In general it is so: and were it not so, one evil offspring succeeding another, adding their own to their predecessors' vices, the earth would become so exceedingly corrupt that a second flood, or a fire, would be necessary to purge it.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-22Verses 10-22 If we are truly wise, we shall be careful to avoid all evil company and evil practices. When wisdom has dominion over us, then it not only fills the head, but enters into the heart, and will preserve, both against corruptions within and temptations without. The ways of sin are ways of darkness, uncomfortable and unsafe: what fools are those who leave the plain, pleasant, lightsome paths of uprightness, to walk in such ways! They take pleasure…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20-22Those who make wise choices will live in the land; those who do not will be evicted. God gave the land of Israel to his people, but they could only stay if they followed God's commands (Deuteronomy 28:9–11, 64–68). Because they broke his law, they were expelled in 586 BC (see 2 Kings 25:1–30; 2 Chronicles 36:15–21).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 21-2221-22. (Compare Psa 37:3, 9, 22, 27).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 2
- 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
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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