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Proverbs 11:31

shall be recompensed This might mean, shall receive, in each case, the return due to him; the righteous shall be rewarded(as the same Heb. word is rendered in Proverbs 13:13) and the wicked punished(comp. recompense evil, the Heb. word being again the same, Jeremiah 18:20). But then it is difficult to understand why the law of retribution should obtain "much more" in the second case than in the first. "Recompensed" has therefore been understood to mean "punished" in both cases: The righteous shall be punished for his sins ("for there is no man that sinneth not," 1 Kings 8:46); how much more, &c. The LXX. paraphrase of this latter interpretation is adopted by St Peter: "If the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" 1 Peter 4:18, R.V.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 11:31. _BEHOLD, THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE RECOMPENSED IN THE_ _EARTH, C._] The _Septuagint, Syrian_, and _Arabic_ read this verse as follows: "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, wher...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The sense would appear to be, “The righteous is requited, i. e., is punished for his lesser sins, or as a discipline; much more the wicked, etc.” Compare 1 Peter 4:18....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 11 THE CONTRAST CONTINUED The continued contrast in this chapter between the righteous and the wicked contains many precious gems, sweet to faith and wholesome for instruction. In the second v...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERBS 11. The orthodox view of strictly retributive justice found in Proverbs 10:24 f., Proverbs 11:27 is represented by a further group (Proverbs 11:2;...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SHALL BE RECOMPENSED IN THE EARTH. This was the promise for that Dispensation (Psalms 37), not for this. See 1 Peter 4:18 and App-63. Rightly divide the Dispensations, and all difficulties are removed...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEHOLD, &C.— If David, if Job, if the apostles and choicest servants of God, have been tried in this world by affliction, what must await the impious and the sinners? If God does not even pardon the j...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 11:22-31 22. As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, So is a fair woman that is without discretion. 23. The desire of the righteous is only good; But the expectation of the wicked is...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner. BEHOLD, THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE RECOMPENSED IN THE EARTH: MUCH MORE THE WICKED AND THE SINNER. "Recomp...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. Under this prohibition of "a false balance" is forbidden all fraud, by whatsoever suns of deception it may be committed,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. False weights were exceedingly common (Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:10; Amos 8:5)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God is fair with everybody. The good man will receive good things. God will provide for him. God is also fair with evil people. They will receive a fair punishment....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BEHOLD THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE RECOMPENSED IN THE EARTH. — That is, even he shall be punished for his misdeeds, as were Jacob, Moses, David; how much more shall “the wicked and the sinner.” The LXX. tr...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֵ֣ן צַ֭דִּיק בָּ † אָ֣רֶץ יְשֻׁלָּ֑ם אַ֝֗ף...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Behold, the righteous shall be (t) recompensed upon the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner. (t) Will be punished as he deserves, (1 Peter 4:18)....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Receive. Punishment, for almost inevitable faults, or be treated according to his deserts. Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic, "if the just be hardly saved, where shall the impious and the sinner appear?...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BEHOLD, THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE RECOMPENSED IN THE EARTH,.... Which Aben Ezra understands of the recompence of their good works. There is a reward for the righteous, and which they have now in keeping,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner. Ver. 31. _The righteous shall be recompensed,_] _i.e., _ Chastened, afflicted, "judged of the Lord, that...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed_ That is, chastised, or punished for his sins; which the next clause shows to be Solomon's meaning here; _in the earth_ Whereby he intimates, that all the r...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE RECOMPENSED, i.e. punished for his sins, as appears from the next clause; the general word being here used of this one particular, by a synecdoche. _In the earth_; whereby he in...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 11:31 righteous H6662 recompensed H7999 (H8792) earth H776 ungodly H7563 sinner H2398 (H8802)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RIGHTEOUS SEEK WHAT IS GOOD, FLOURISH BECAUSE THEY HAVE TRUE LIFE, PRODUCING ITS FRUIT, AND WILL BE RECOMPENSED ON EARTH. THE UNRIGHTEOUS SEARCH AFTER WHAT IS BAD, TRUST IN RICHES, ARE BROUGHT LOW...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Proverbs 11:31 I. God is impartial. He is no respecter of persons, but causing His sun to shine on the evil and the good, and His rain to fall on the just and on the unjust; and so rewarding every man...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The ways of righteousness are plain and safe and in them we may enjoy a holy security. The ways of wickedness are dangerous...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 11:1. _A false balance is an abomination to the Lord._ A dishonest tradesman here receives a hard stroke. Though his weight be but little short of the standard; yet by using it a thousand tim...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth._ JUDGMENT HERE Two ways of explaining this text. 1. Of the happiness which God has appointed for goodness, it has pleased Him that some por...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 11:23 The ultimate destinies of the WICKED and the RIGHTEOUS (e.g., vv. Proverbs 11:23 and...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 11:31. Miller transposes this verse and reads, “Behold the righteous on earth shall be recompensed,” etc. ON EARTH may be placed either with “the righteous,” or with “recomp...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 11:1 A FALSE BALANCE; literally, _balances of deceit _(Proverbs 20:23). The repetition of the injunctions of Deuteronomy 25:13,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 11:30; 1 Kings 13:24; 1 Peter 4:17; 1 Peter 4:18;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Recompensed — Punished for his sins....

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    Are the righteous rewarded in this life or in the next one? PROBLEM: Here Solomon speaks as though the godly person receives his reward in this life, claiming, “the righteous will be recompensed on th...

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