Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is thrust down in his misfortune; but the righteous, even when he is brought to death, hath hope.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
In Context
Cross References
Job 13:15Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will argue my ways before Him.
Job 19:25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He will witness at the last upon the dust;
Psalms 16:11Thou makest me to know the path of life; in Thy presence is fulness of joy, in Thy right hand bliss for evermore.
Psalms 23:4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me.
Psalms 58:9(58-10) Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.
Proverbs 6:15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; on a sudden shall he be broken, and that without 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 →