Proverbs 11:9
With his mouth doth the hypocrite destroy his neighbor; but through knowledge are the righteous delivered.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
8The righteous is delivered out of distress, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
Cross References
1 Kings 13:18And he said unto him, I also am a prophet like thee; and an angel spoke unto me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with thee unto thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.
1 Kings 22:20And the Lord said, Who will persuade Achab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gil'ad! And one said, In this manner, and another said, In that manner.
Job 34:30That no hypocritical man may reign, that such shall not be a mare to the people.
Psalms 55:20(55:21) He stretcheth out his hands against those at peace with him: he violateth his covenant.
Proverbs 4:5Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding: forget not, and depart not from the sayings 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 →