Proverbs 21:18
The wicked pay the price and not the good; those who are deceitful and not those who live right.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
In Context
17If you love pleasure you'll become poor; if you love wine and olive oil you won't ever be rich.
19It's better to live in a desert than with an argumentative and bad-tempered wife.
Cross References
Isaiah 43:3For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I gave Egypt to pay for your freedom; I traded Ethiopia and Seba for you.
Isaiah 55:8For your thoughts are not my thoughts; and your ways are not my ways, declares the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:18
17 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich. Here is an argument against a voluptuous luxurious life, taken from the ruin it brings upon men's temporal interests. Here is 1. The description of an epicure: He loves pleasure. God allows us to use the delights of sense soberly and temperately, wine to make glad the heart and put vigour into the spirits, and oil to make the face to shine and beautify the countenance; but he that loves these, that sets his heart upon… Read the whole commentary →