Proverbs 11:8
in Proverbs 11The righteous man is delivered from trouble; in his place the wicked man goes in.
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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.
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This verse in Proverbs 11
Commentary
7 notes on this verse"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; …
This site's exposition
Riches are worthless in the day of wrath
on Proverbs 11:4-8
“Riches are worthless in the day of wrath” states what money cannot buy, and righteousness stands as the one deliverance named. The four proverbs that follow work the same ground: “the wicked fall by their own wickedness,” and the two courses end apart even in trouble.
This site's exposition
The righteous man is delivered from trouble
The trouble set for the righteous man falls on the wicked man instead, as the gallows built for Mordecai took Haman in Esther 7:10. Matthew Henry says this exchange is certain at death and often seen in life. The trap changes owners.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
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.
The righteous is delivered out of trouble,....
It is here shown that righteousness, not only by the divine judgment, will end in life, and wickedness in death, but that righteousness, in its own nature, has a direct tendency to life and wickedness to death. True holiness is true happiness; it is a preparative for it, a pledge and earnest of it.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
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.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| צַ֭דִּיק | tzadik | a righteous [person] | H6662 → | 206 times |
| מִצָּרָ֣ה | mitzarah | from distress | H6869 → | 73 times |
| נֶחֱלָ֑ץ | nechelatz | [is] delivered | H2502 → | |
| וַיָּבֹ֖א | vaiyavo' | and he came | H935 → | 2568 times |
| רָשָׁ֣ע | rasha' | a wicked [person] | H7563 → | 263 times |
| תַּחְתָּֽיו׃ | tachtav | in place his | H8478 → | 505 times |
צַ֭דִּיקa righteous [person]
tzadikH6662 →206 times
מִצָּרָ֣הfrom distress
mitzarahH6869 →73 times
נֶחֱלָ֑ץ[is] delivered
nechelatzH2502 →
וַיָּבֹ֖אand he came
vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times
רָשָׁ֣עa wicked [person]
rasha'H7563 →263 times
תַּחְתָּֽיו׃in place his
tachtavH8478 →505 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
4 stopsEach 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 21:18The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.
it leads to
- Isaiah 43:3–4
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.
- Isaiah 53:4–5
Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
- 1 Peter 3:18
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,
- Isaiah 55:8–9
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
- Isaiah 43:3–4
Where this verse is studied
About Proverbs
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.