Proverbs 11:8
The righteous man is delivered from trouble; in his place the wicked man goes in.
BSB
ASV
The righteous is delivered out of trouble; And the wicked cometh in his stead.
KJV
The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
"The righteous is delivered out of trouble," etc. Any martyr freed from the distress of suffering after death will be entrusted to punishment on account of his cause to the persecutor who caused him distress. James was crowned with martyrdom, Peter was saved from prison; …
8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead. As always in death, so sometimes in life, the righteous are remarkably favoured and the wicked crossed. Good people are helped out of the distresses which they thought themselves lost in, and their feet are set in a large room, Ps. lxvi.
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 walk4
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.
Through
Proverbs 21:18The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.
leads to
For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place.
Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.