Proverbs 11:9
The dissembler with his mouth hurteth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the iust be deliuered.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
In Context
8The ryghteous shalbe delyuered out of trouble: and the vngodly shall come in his steade.
Cross References
Proverbs 4:5Get thee wysdome, and get thee vnderstanding: forget not the wordes of my mouth, and shrinke not from them.
Matthew 7:15Beware of false prophetes, which come to you in sheepes clothyng: but inwardly they are rauenyng woolfes.
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 →