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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 11:5-6

These two verses are, in effect, the same, and both to the same purport with Prov. 11:3. For the truths are here of such certainty and weight that they cannot be too often inculcated. Let us govern ourselves by these principles. I. That the ways of religion are plain and safe, and in them we may enjoy a holy security. A living principle of honesty and grace will be, 1. Our best direction in the right way, in every doubtful case to say to us, This is the way, walk in it. He that acts without a... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 11:7

Note, 1. Even wicked men, while they live, may keep up a confident expectation of a happiness when they die, or at least a happiness in this world. The hypocrite has his hope, in which he wraps himself as the spider in her web. The worldling expects great matters from his wealth; he calls it goods laid up for many years, and hopes to take his ease in it and to be merry; but in death their expectation will be frustrated: the worldling must leave this world which he expected to continue in and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 11:8

As always in death, so sometimes in life, the righteous are remarkably favoured and the wicked crossed. 1. Good people are helped out of the distresses which they thought themselves lost in, and their feet are set in a large room, Ps. 66:12; 34:19. God has found out a way to deliver his people even when they have despaired and their enemies have triumphed, as if the wilderness had shut them in. 2. The wicked have fallen into the distresses which they thought themselves far from, nay, which... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 11:9

Here is, 1. Hypocrisy designing ill. It is not only the murderer with his sword, but the hypocrite with his mouth, that destroys his neighbour, decoying him into sin, or into mischief, by the specious pretences of kindness and good-will. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, but no tongue more fatal than the flattering tongue. 2. Honesty defeating the design and escaping the snare: Through knowledge of the devices of Satan shall the just be delivered from the snares which the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 11:10-11

It is here observed, I. That good men are generally well-beloved by their neighbours, but nobody cares for wicked people. 1. It is true there are some few that are enemies to the righteous, that are prejudiced against God and godliness, and are therefore vexed to see good men in power and prosperity; but all indifferent persons, even those that have no great stock of religion themselves, have a good word for a good man; and therefore when it goes well with the righteous, when they are advanced... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them ,.... From death, as in Proverbs 11:4 ; and from falling by sin, totally and finally; or into it, so as to perish eternally; as well as it shall deliver those out of Babylon, who are the Lord's people, that will be found therein when that is about to fall; see Revelation 18:4 ; but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness ; in the very act of sin, and be punished for it; taken in it as in a net, and which they have... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 11:7

When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish ,.... His expectation of a longer life, of getting more riches, attaining to more honour, enjoying more pleasure here, and of having happiness hereafter, and of being delivered from wrath to come; he will then find, when he comes to die, that his expectations in this world are vain, and those which respect happiness in another world are ill-grounded; or when he dies, the expectation of others that depended on him, trusted in him, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 11:8

The righteous is delivered out of trouble ,.... One after another he comes into, if not in this life, yet at death; which is to him a perfect deliverance out of all tribulation; see Revelation 7:14 ; or when the wicked die, as in Proverbs 11:7 , then the righteous are delivered from the trouble they gave them, or designed to give them; though it seems rather to design deliverance from trouble in the first sense, since it follows, and the wicked cometh in his stead ; as Haman did in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 11:9

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour ,.... Deceives him with his flatteries and lies, and draws him into destructive schemes and practices; or "corrupts" him, as the word F9 ישחת "corrumpet", Schultens; so Pagninus, Montanus; "corrumpit", Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Mercerus, Gejerus. signifies, and as the Targum renders it, with false doctrines; so, with fair words and good speeches, such who lie in wait to deceive impose upon the simple and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 11:10

When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth ,.... As it always does, even in the worst of times; in times of public calamity and distress, and when enemies rise up on all hands; it is well with them in life, in death, and to all eternity; see Isaiah 3:10 ; but there are particular times when it goes well with them, which is matter of joy to others; when they prosper in the worm, increase in riches and honour, and are advanced to places of authority and trust; just magistrates... read more

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