Proverbs 11:9
In the mouth of ungodly men is a snare to citizens: but the understanding of righteous men is prosperous.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
8A righteous man escapes from a snare, and the ungodly man is delivered up in his place.
Cross References
1 Kings 13:18And he said to him, I also am a prophet as thou art; and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back to thee into thy house, and let him eat bread and drink water: but he lied to him.
1 Kings 22:20And the Lord said, Who will deceive Achaab king of Israel, + 22:20 Gr. and he shall, etc.that he may go up and fall in Remmath Galaad? and one spoke one way, and another another way.
Job 34:30causing a hypocrite to be king, because of the waywardness of the people.
Proverbs 4:5and do not neglect the speech of my mouth. + 4:5 See Appendix - Alexandrian codex has: “Get wisdom, get understanding, forget not, nor decline from the words of my mouth.”
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 →