Proverbs 11:9
The dissembler with his mouth deceiveth his friend: but the just shall be delivered by knowledge.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
8The just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be given up for him.
Cross References
1 Kings 13:18He said to him: I also am a prophet like unto thee: and an angel spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink water. He deceived him, An angel spoke to me, etc... This old man of Bethel was indeed a prophet, but he sinned in thus deceiving the man of God; the more because he pretended a revelation for what he did.
1 Kings 22:20And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab, king of Israel, that he may go up, and fall at Ramoth Galaad? And one spoke words of this manner, and another otherwise. The Lord said, etc... God standeth not in need of any counsellor; nor are we to suppose that things pass in heaven in the manner here described: but this representation was made to the prophet, to be delivered by him in a manner adapted to the common ways and notions of men.
Job 34:30Who maketh a man that is a hypocrite to reign for the sins of the people?
Proverbs 4:5Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Matthew 7:15Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they 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 →