Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way, but the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.
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4Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:23And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got home to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself. And he died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
Job 18:7The steps of his strength shall be restricted, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
Proverbs 1:18and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 3:6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.
Proverbs 11:3The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
Proverbs 14:32An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:5
4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death. Note, 1. The day of death will be a day of wrath. It is a messenger of God's wrath; therefore when Moses had meditated on man's mortality he takes occasion thence to admire the power of God's anger, Ps. cx. 11 . It is a debt owing, not to nature, but to God's justice. After death the judgment, and that is a day of wrath, Rev. vi. 17 . 2. Riches will stand men in no stead that day. They will neither put by the stroke nor ease the… Read the whole commentary →