Proverbs 11:5
The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.
6The justice of the righteous shall deliver them: and the unjust shall be caught in their own snares.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:23But Achitophel seeing that his counsel was not followed, saddled his ass, and arose and went home to his house and to his city, and putting his house in order, hanged himself, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
Job 18:7The step of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down headlong.
Proverbs 1:18And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.
Proverbs 3:6In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps.
Proverbs 11:3The simplicity of the just shall guide them: and the deceitfulness of the wicked shall destroy them.
Proverbs 14:32The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath 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 →