proverbs-11:5-8

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way ,.... Or "make it plain" F6 תישר "rectam facit", Cocceius; "complanat viam ejus", Schultens. ; that is, the righteousness of those who are perfect in Christ, complete in him, perfectly justified by his righteousness; that righteousness makes their way plain; it is the direct way, the highway, the pathway to eternal life and happiness; see Proverbs 12:28 ; but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness ; or, "in his... 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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 11:7

When a wicked man dieth - Hope is a great blessing to man in his present state of trial and suffering; because it leads him to expect a favorable termination of his ills. But hope was not made for the wicked; and yet they are the very persons that most abound in it! They hope to be saved, and get at last to the kingdom of God; though they have their face towards perdition, and refuse to turn. But their hope goes no farther than the grave. There the wicked man's expectation is cut off, and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 11:8

The wicked cometh in his stead - Often God makes this distinction; in public calamities and in sudden accidents he rescues the righteous, and leaves the wicked, who has filled up the measure of his iniquities, to be seized by the hand of death. Justice, then, does its own work; for mercy has been rejected. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 11:1-11

The ways of honour and of shame I. JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE IN COMMON THINGS . Jehovah delights in "full weight," and abominates the tricky balance. This may be applied: 1 . Literally, to commerce between man and man. 2 . Figuratively, to all social relations in which we may give and receive. Work is only honest if thorough; if honest and thorough, it is religious. If principle be the basis of all our transactions, then what we do is done "unto the Lord, and not unto men."... read more

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 11:7

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 11:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 11:5

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

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 11:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 11:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 11:1-11

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