Proverbs 11:9
Godless people mouth off and destroy their neighbors, but the good are saved by wisdom.
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8The good are saved from trouble, while the wicked get into trouble.
Cross References
1 Kings 13:18But the old prophet told him, “I am also a prophet, just like you. An angel told me God said, ‘Take him home with you so that he can have something to eat and drink’” But he was lying to him.
1 Kings 22:20The Lord asked, ‘Who will trick Ahab, king of Israel, into attacking Ramoth-gilead so he will be killed there?’ One said this, another said that, and another said something else.
Job 34:30a person who rejects God should not rule so they don't mislead people.
Psalms 55:20As for my best friend, he attacked his friends who had no quarrel with him; he broke the promises he had made to them.
Proverbs 4:5Get wisdom, find out what makes sense. Don't forget my words or reject them.
Matthew 7:15Watch out for false prophets who come wearing sheep's clothing, but who on the inside are vicious 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 →