Proverbs 2:22
in Proverbs 2but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
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ASV
But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
KJV
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
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This verse in Proverbs 2
Commentary
8 notes on this verseTransgressors - בוגדים bogedim. The garment men, the hypocrites; those who act borrowed characters, who go under a eloak; dissemblers. All such shall be rooted out of the land; they shall not be blessed with posterity. In general it is so: and were it not so, one evil offspring succeeding another, adding their own to their predecessors’ vices, the earth would become so exceedingly corrupt that a second flood, or a fire, would be necessary to purge it.
This site's exposition
So you will follow in the ways of the good
on Proverbs 2:20-22
“So you will follow in the ways of the good” gives the conditional sentence its purpose, a life spent on “the paths of the righteous”. The promise that “the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it” echoes the land promise of the law.
This site's exposition
the unfaithful will be uprooted
The unfaithful are bogedim, from a root that Adam Clarke links with the word for a garment, men who cover themselves with a false character. Uprooted pictures a tree torn out of the ground. The land keeps the upright of verse 21 and casts out the wicked.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
A commentator
Clement of RomeClement's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 14 · Written before 99.
proposed
It is right and holy therefore, men and brethren, rather to obey God than to follow those who, through pride and sedition, have become the leaders of a detestable emulation. For we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at exciting strife and tumults, so as to draw us away from what is good. Let us be kind one to another after the pattern of the tender mercy and benignity of our Creator.
The Medieval Church1 voice
But the wicked will be destroyed from the earth, etc. These words can be taken not generally about all the condemned, but specifically about those who seem to belong to the land of the Lord, that is, the Church, and yet due to their merits …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
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.
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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּ֭רְשָׁעִים | ureshaim | and wicked [people] | H7563 → | 263 times |
| מֵאֶ֣רֶץ | meeretz | from [the] land | H776 → | 2504 times |
| יִכָּרֵ֑תוּ | yikaretu | they will be cut off | H3772 → | 288 times |
| וּ֝בוֹגְדִ֗ים | uvogdim | and treacherous [people] | H898 → | 49 times |
| יִסְּח֥וּ | yisechu | they will be torn away | H5255 → | |
| מִמֶּֽנָּה׃ פ | mimenah | from it | H4480 → | 1188 times |
וּ֭רְשָׁעִיםand wicked [people]
ureshaimH7563 →263 times
מֵאֶ֣רֶץfrom [the] land
meeretzH776 →2504 times
יִכָּרֵ֑תוּthey will be cut off
yikaretuH3772 →288 times
וּ֝בוֹגְדִ֗יםand treacherous [people]
uvogdimH898 →49 times
יִסְּח֥וּthey will be torn away
yisechuH5255 →
מִמֶּֽנָּה׃ פfrom it
mimenahH4480 →1188 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 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
Deuteronomy 7:22The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.
it leads to
- Exodus 23:29–30
I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.
- Exodus 23:29–30
Through
Proverbs 10:30The righteous will never be shaken, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.
it leads to
- Psalms 37:22
Surely those He blesses will inherit the land, but the cursed will be destroyed.
- Psalms 125:1
Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.
- Psalms 37:28–29
For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
- Psalms 37:9–10
For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.
- Proverbs 2:21–22
For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
- Psalms 37:22
Through
Psalms 37:28For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
it leads to
- Psalms 11:7
For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.
- Psalms 21:10
You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.
- Psalms 11:7
About Proverbs
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; Clement of Rome, Clement's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 14; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.