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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 10:2

Righteousness delivereth from death— The meaning seems to be, that justice, holiness, and virtue, constitute the true riches of a man; which, whosoever is wise enough to lay up, procures to himself an impregnable asylum. See chap. Proverbs 11:4 and Schultens. Le Clerc thinks that righteousness means innocence; which being once proved, the person falsely accused will be cleared. The reader will observe, that in this, as in the other poetical books of Scripture, the hemistichs correspond each to the other; and an attention to this will serve greatly to elucidate a variety of passages.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERBS 10:2 (_cf._ Psalms 3:7). RIGHTEOUSNESS: the growth of the conception of righteousness is an important subject. As in the Pss., there is a specific class the righteous opposed to the wicked. T...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WICKEDNESS. lawlessness. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. PROFIT NOTHING. Illustrations: Rehoboam (2 Chronicles 12:1; 2 Chronicles 12:9); Gehazi (2 Kings 5:20;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Treasures of wickedness … righteousness_ The contrast would seem to be between "wickedness" in its highest prosperity and success, when it has amassed "treasures," when it has "found all precious sub...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹא ־יֹ֭ועִילוּ אֹוצְרֹ֣ות רֶ֑שַׁע וּ֝ צְדָקָ֗ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Wickedness. Riches ill acquired, or tending to corrupt the heart, Luke xvi. 9._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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  • 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

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 10:2 Treasures H214 wickedness H7562 profit H3276 (H8686) righteousness H6666 delivers H5337 (H8686) death H41

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SUBHEADING. Proverbs 10:1 ‘The Proverbs of Solomon.' Here we have the heading for this subsection. It is brief and to the point, for Solomon has already been more fully described in Proverbs 1:1. It...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The blessedness of the ways of righteousness and the folly of the ways of wickedness. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: The head of the just man will be crowned with the blessings both...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 10:2_ THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND RICHES I. WEALTH WHEN LAWFULLY GOTTEN IS PROFITLESS FOR MANY VERY IMPORTANT THINGS. Death is mentioned in the text, it h...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Of wickedness — Such as are got by any sort of wicked practices. Death — Often from temporal, and always from eternal death....

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