Proverbs 10:30
The just in eternity shall not be moved. But the impious will not live upon the earth.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
In Context
29The strength of the simple is the way of the Lord, and it is fear to those who work evil.
31The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom. The tongue of the depraved will perish.
Cross References
Psalms 15:5The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and my cup. It is you who will restore my inheritance to me.
Psalms 37:9I have been afflicted and greatly humbled. I bellowed from the groaning of my heart.
Psalms 112:6and who gazes upon the humble things in heaven and on earth?
Proverbs 2:21For those who are upright shall live upon the earth, and the simple shall continue upon it.
Proverbs 10:25Like a passing tempest, so the impious one will be no more. But the just one is like an everlasting foundation.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:30-31
29 The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. 30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. These two verses are to the same purport with those next before, intimating the happiness of the godly and the misery of the wicked; it is necessary that this be inculcated upon us, so loth are we to believe and consider it. 1. Strength and stability are entailed upon integrity: The way of the Lord (the providence of God, the… Read the whole commentary →