Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 21:18
Compare 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.
Compare 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.
Verse Proverbs 21:18. _THE 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...
CHAPTER 21 PERSONAL INSTRUCTIONS AS TO LIFE AND CONDUCT In the proverbs of this chapter the Lord is mentioned five times. “The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: He turne...
PROVERBS 21:1. WATERCOURSES: not the natural brooks and wadys of Palestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia, which could be diverted in any direction at will. Proverbs 21:4....
THE RIGHTEOUS. a righteous one. TRANSGRESSOR. traitor....
_a ransom_ Comp. "I have given Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee … I will give men for thee and peoples for thy life," Isaiah 43:3-4. Egypt was, so to speak, the price paid for the deli...
TEXT Proverbs 21:11-20 11. When the scoffer is punished, the simple is made wise; And when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge. 12. The righteous man considereth the house of the wicke...
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright. THE WICKED (SHALL BE) A RANSOM FOR THE RIGHTEOUS, AND THE TRANSGRESSOR FOR THE UPRIGHT. The righteous are save...
1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels of Egypt and Babylon (Isaiah 58:11)....
Cp. Proverbs 11:8....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 21 V1 A king is like a canal that God controls. God leads the king in the way that God decides....
This is God’s principle. It is not a human principle. On this earth, good people sometimes suffer, even when wicked people do not suffer (Psalms 22:7-8). Sometimes innocent people suffer (Luke 13:1-5)...
THE WICKED SHALL BE A RANSOM FOR THE RIGHTEOUS. — The righteous is “delivered out of trouble (Proverbs 11:8; comp. Isaiah 57:1), and the wicked cometh in his stead” to receive upon his own head God’s...
כֹּ֣פֶר לַ † צַּדִּ֣יק רָשָׁ֑ע וְ תַ֖חַת...
CHAPTER 22 WINE "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich."- Proverbs 21:17 THE Septuagint translation has an interesting addition to the proverb in...
Verse Proverbs 21:4. The "lamp" of a man's life is his spirit. Where that is exalted and manifests itself in the high look and the proud heart, there is sin. All of which is to say that for a man to f...
The (h) wicked [shall be] a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright. (h) God will cause that to fall on their own heads, which they intended against the just by delivering the...
_Righteous. Many are deterred from wickedness by the punishment of malefactors, whose injuries are frequently irreparable. God abandoned Pharao and Aman to save his people. He treated them as victims...
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. When the scorner is pu...
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...
THE WICKED [SHALL BE] A RANSOM FOR THE RIGHTEOUS,.... Not to make satisfaction for them, as Christ is a ransom for his people; but as a ransom is in the room of another, so the wicked cometh in the st...
_The wicked [shall be] a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright._ Ver. 18. _The wicked shall be a ransom._] Heb., _Copher,_ a cover, or an expiation; as Achan was for Israel,...
_The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous_ The wicked shall be brought into those troubles which were designed by wicked men against the righteous, and by that means, as by a ransom, the righteo...
V. 18. THE WICKED SHALL BE A RANSOM for the righteous, for by the punishment which he suffers he atones, in a way, for the errors of the pious or is substituted by God for his intended victim, as Hama...
The wicked shall be brought into those troubles which were either threatened by God or designed by wicked men against the righteous, and by that means, as by a ransom, the righteous shall be delivered...
Proverbs 21:18 wicked H7563 ransom H3724 righteous H6662 unfaithful H898 (H8802) upright H3477 wicked -...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who follow after righteousness, shall find righteousness, honor and life. KEY WORD: Counsel (Proverbs 20:5). STRONG VERSES: P...
Proverbs 21:1. _The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will._ The allusion is probably to the water-meads and the ditches in the corn field...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 21:9 Verses Proverbs 21:9 and Proverbs 21:19, on the q
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 21:15 When JUSTICE is practiced, it is a JOY for those who have walked in its ways and a TERROR to those who have perverted it (v....
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 21:18_ THE RANSOM OF THE RIGHTEOUS This verse must be understood to express the same truth as that in Isaiah 43:3, in which Jehovah, speaking to the Hebrew people, says,...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 21:1 THE KING'S HEART IS IN THE HAND OF THE LORD, AS THE RIVERS OF WATER. We are to think of the little channels used for irrigation. As these are altogether under the gardener's...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Proverbs 21:1-31. Proverbs 21:1-31, Solomon declares: The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will (Prov...
1 Peter 3:18; Isaiah 43:3; Isaiah 43:4; Isaiah 53:4; Isaiah 53:5;...
A ransom — The wicked shall be brought into those troubles, which were designed by wicked men for the righteous: thus Haman was a ransom for Mordecai....