Proverbs 11:5
The justice of the simple shall direct his way. And the impious will fall in his impiety.
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4Wealth will not profit in the day of vengeance. But justice shall liberate from death.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:23Then Ahithophel, seeing that his counsel had not been done, saddled his donkey, and he rose up and went away to his own house and to his own city. And putting his house in order, he killed himself by hanging. And he was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
Job 18:7His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably.
Proverbs 1:18Likewise, they lie in ambush against their own blood, and they undertake deceits against their own souls.
Proverbs 3:6In all your ways, consider him, and he himself will direct your steps.
Proverbs 11:3The simplicity of the just shall direct them, and the rebellion of the perverse will devastate them.
Proverbs 14:32The impious will be expelled in his malice. But the just finds hope even in his own 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 →