Proverbs 10:30
The just shall never be moved: but the wicked shall not dwell on the earth.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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 15:5The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.
Psalms 37:9I am afflicted and humbled exceedingly: I roared with the groaning of my heart.
Psalms 112:6And looketh down on the low things in heaven and in earth?
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 →