Proverbs 11:21

Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

(Though) hand (join) in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered - from punishment. Though the wicked conspire together, and have many accomplices, joining right hand to right hand, in pledge of mutual faith, and in token of their engagement mutually to help one another against all adversaries, yet they shall not escape punishment. Mercer, DeDieu, and Maurer refer the phrase to the succession of parents and children-literally, hand to hand; i:e., not even by the succession of sons (the inheritance of guilt passing from the wicked of the father to the hand of the son) shall the wicked escape punishment: neither himself nor his posterity shall escape. Certainly the parallel clause, "the seed of the righteous," requires in contrast reference to the seed of the wicked. Probably both ideas are included-`Though the wicked man has many accomplices, friends, successors, and posterity, as auxiliary hands, yet these shall not shield him from punishment: he and they shall be punished.'