Proverbs 14:32
The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
In Context
31He that oppresseth the poor, upbraideth his maker: but he that hath pity on the poor, honoureth him.
33In the heart of the prudent resteth wisdom, and it shall instruct all the ignorant.
Cross References
Job 13:15Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.
Job 19:25For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth. Ver. 25, 26, and 27 shew Job's explicit belief in his Redeemer, and also of the resurrection of the flesh, not as one tree riseth in place of another, but that the selfsame flesh shall rise at the last day, by the power of God, changed in quality but not in substance, every one to receive sentence according to his works in this life.
Psalms 16:11They have cast me forth, and now they have surrounded me: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth.
Psalms 23:4The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.
Psalms 58:9But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: thou shalt bring all the nations to nothing.
Proverbs 6:15To such a one his destruction shall presently come, and he shall suddenly be destroyed, and shall no longer have any remedy.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:32
31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. God is here pleased to interest himself more than one would imagine in the treatment given to the poor. 1. He reckons himself affronted in the injuries that are done them. Whosoever he be that wrongs a poor man, taking advantage against him because he is poor and cannot help himself, let him know that he puts an affront upon his Maker. God made him, and gave him his being, the same that is the author of our… Read the whole commentary →