Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the perfect maketh even his way; but by his own wickedness will the wicked fall.
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4Wealth cannot profit on the day of wrath; but righteousness deliver from death.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:23And when Achithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled the ass, and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and gave his charge to his household, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
Job 18:7His powerful steps will be narrowed, and his own counsel will cast him down.
Proverbs 1:18While they lie in wait for their [own] blood; they watch in concealment for their [own] lives.
Proverbs 3:6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will make level thy paths.
Proverbs 11:3The integrity of the upright guideth them; but the cunning of the treacherous destroyeth them.
Proverbs 14:32Through his own evil is the wicked thrust down; but even in his death doth the righteous have confidence.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:5
4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death. Note, 1. The day of death will be a day of wrath. It is a messenger of God's wrath; therefore when Moses had meditated on man's mortality he takes occasion thence to admire the power of God's anger, Ps. cx. 11 . It is a debt owing, not to nature, but to God's justice. After death the judgment, and that is a day of wrath, Rev. vi. 17 . 2. Riches will stand men in no stead that day. They will neither put by the stroke nor ease the… Read the whole commentary →