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Proverbs 2:22
22But the wicked will be cut off from the land and the treacherous uprooted 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 you will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous. 21For the upright will dwell in the land and the blameless will remain in it. But the wicked will be cut off from the land and the treacherous uprooted 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 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man will ensnare him. The cords of his sin will hold him down.
- Job 18:16Below his roots dry up, and above his branches wither.
- Job 21:30that the wicked are spared for the day of calamity that they are brought to the day of wrath?
- Psalms 37:20For the wicked will perish, and the enemies of Adonai will be like the beauty of the fields— they will vanish—vanish like smoke.
- Psalms 52:5You love evil instead of good, lying rather than speaking right. Selah
- Psalms 104:35Let sinners vanish from the earth and let the wicked be no more. Bless Adonai, O my soul. Halleluyah!
- Psalms 145:20Adonai watches over all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
- Isaiah 3:10Say to the righteous, he will be well, eating the fruit of their deeds.
- Deuteronomy 7:22Adonai your God will drive away those nations before you little by little—you will not be able to put an end to them all at once, or else the beasts of the field will multiply on you.
- Deuteronomy 28:64“Adonai will scatter you among all peoples from the one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods—wood and stone—that you and your fathers have not known.
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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