Proverbs 11:9
With his mouth a hypocrite destroyeth his neighbour; but through knowledge are the righteous delivered.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
8The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
Cross References
1 Kings 13:18And he said to him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spoke to me by the word of Jehovah saying, Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. He lied unto him.
1 Kings 22:20and Jehovah said, Who shall entice Ahab that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead? And one said after this manner, and another said after that manner.
Job 34:30That the ungodly man reign not, that the people be not ensnared.
Psalms 55:20He hath put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him; he hath profaned his covenant.
Proverbs 4:5Get wisdom, get intelligence: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Matthew 7:15But beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but within are ravening wolves.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:9
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. 1. 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. 12 ; xxxiv. 19 . God has found out a way to deliver his people even when they have despaired and their enemies have triumphed, as if the wilderness had shut them in. 2. The wicked have fallen into… Read the whole commentary →