Proverbs 1:32

32. For the turning away From wisdom; their departure from right and virtue, their defection, (cf. Proverbs 1:23,) shall be their ruin, and even their very prosperity or success. (“security, carelessness.” Speaker’s Com.,) shall work their destruction. The worst thing that can happen to a wicked man is to succeed in his devices. It is all in mercy when God early defeats him. It is probable that שׁלות , ( shalvath,) rendered prosperity, means careless security. The word occurs, variously rendered, in Jeremiah 22:21, (prosperity,) 2 Chronicles 29:11, (negligent,) Ezekiel xxiii, 42, (being at ease.) The Geneva Bible renders: “For ease slayeth the foolish, and the prosperitie of fooles destroyeth them.” The Septuagint renders the thirty-second verse thus: “Because they wronged the simple, they shall be slain; and an inquisition shall ruin the ungodly.”