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Proverbs 29:2

in Proverbs 29

When the righteous flourish, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

When the righteous are increased, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man beareth rule, the people sigh.

KJV

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

This verse in Proverbs 29

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice

on Proverbs 29:2-4

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn, opens a governance cluster the chapter returns to throughout, a ruler's character setting the public mood beneath him. Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father, but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance, applies the same principle at the scale of one household and one son's choices. The king by judgment establisheth the land, but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it, names the single practice, bribery, that turns a throne from a foundation into a ruin.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

When the righteous are in authority,....

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בִּרְב֣וֹתwhen increase

    birvotH7235227 times

  • צַ֭דִּיקִיםrighteous [people]

    tzadikimH6662206 times

  • יִשְׂמַ֣חit rejoices

    yismachH8055155 times

  • הָעָ֑םthe people

    haamH59711873 times

  • וּבִמְשֹׁ֥לand when rules

    uvimsholH491081 times

  • רָ֝שָׁ֗עa wicked [person]

    rasha'H7563263 times

  • יֵאָ֥נַֽחit sighs

    yeanachH584

  • עָֽם׃a people

    ʾamH59711873 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Proverbs 28:28

    When the wicked come to power, people hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous flourish.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 28:12

      When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Job 24:4

      They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

    • Acts 12:23–24

      Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

  • Through

    Proverbs 28:12

    When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 28:28

      When the wicked come to power, people hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous flourish.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Proverbs 11:10

      When the righteous thrive, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.

  • Through

    Esther 8:15

    Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal garments of blue and white, with a large gold crown and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa shouted…

    it leads to

    • Luke 16:19

      Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.

    • Esther 6:8

      have them bring a royal robe that the king himself has worn and a horse on which the king himself has ridden—one with a royal crest placed on its head.

    • Genesis 41:42

      Then Pharaoh removed the signet ring from his finger, put it on Joseph’s finger, clothed him in garments of fine linen, and placed a gold chain around his neck.

About Proverbs

King Solomon in Old Age, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
King Solomon in Old Age, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).