Proverbs 10:30
The just shall never be moved: but the wicked shall not dwell on the earth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 upright is the way of the Lord: and fear to them that work evil.
31The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom: the tongue of the perverse shall perish.
Cross References
Psalms 15:5he that hath not put out his money to usury, nor taken bribes against the innocent: He that doth these things shall not be moved for ever.
Psalms 37:9For the evildoers shall be cut off : but they that wait upon the Lord shall inherit the land.
Psalms 37:28For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints : they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.
Psalms 112:6because he shall not be moved for ever.
Proverbs 2:21For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.
Proverbs 10:25As a tempest that passeth, so the wicked shall be no more: but the just is as 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 →