Proverbs 2:22 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 2:22

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

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ASV

But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

WEB

but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.

YLT

And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!

DBT

but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it.

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Psalms 37:28
For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psalms 52:5
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Deuteronomy 7:22
And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Isaiah 3:10–11
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Psalms 94:23
And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.

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They think to take root in it, but they and their families shall be rooted out of it, in judgment to them, but in mercy to the earth. There is a day coming which shall leave them neither root nor branch, Mal. iv.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. 8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. 9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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