The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
As an archer that woundeth all, So is he that hireth a fool and he that hireth them that pass by.
Great is the Former of all, And He is rewarding a fool, And is rewarding transgressors.
A master roughly worketh every one: he both hireth the fool and hireth passers-by.
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.
Voices3
The great God, that formed all things,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
The great God that formed all things - Or, A great man grieveth all, and he hireth the fool, he hireth also transgressors, where this verse is very differently translated. I shall add that of Coverdale: A man of experience discerneth all thinges well: but whoso hyreth a foole, hyreth soch one as wyl take no hede. The רב rab may mean either the great God, or a great man: hence the two renderings, in the text and in the margin.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
Various versions of this are proposed (compare Margin). Better perhaps--"Much He injures (or literally, "wounds") all who reward," &c., that is, society is injured by encouraging evil men. transgressors--may be rendered "vagrants." The word "God" is improperly supplied.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Romans 2:6God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”
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and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.
the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit…
For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.
I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
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Proverbs 11:31If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
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For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?
For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword…
That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches2
God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”
If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
