Proverbs 10:30
The righteous is not moved for all time, || And the wicked do not inhabit the earth.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
In Context
29The way of YHWH [is] strength to the perfect, || And ruin to workers of iniquity.
31The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, || And the tongue of contrariness is cut out.
Cross References
Psalms 15:5He has not given his silver in usury, || And has not taken a bribe against the innocent; Whoever is doing these is not moved for all time!
Psalms 37:9For evildoers are cut off, || As for those waiting on YHWH, they possess the land.
Psalms 37:28For YHWH is loving judgment, || And He does not forsake His saintly ones, || They have been kept for all time, || And the seed of the wicked is cut off.
Psalms 112:6For he is not moved for all time; For the righteous is a continuous memorial.
Proverbs 2:21For the upright inhabit the earth, || And the perfect are left in it,
Proverbs 10:25As the passing by of a windstorm, || So the wicked is not, || And the righteous is a perpetual foundation.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:30-31
29 The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. 30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. These two verses are to the same purport with those next before, intimating the happiness of the godly and the misery of the wicked; it is necessary that this be inculcated upon us, so loth are we to believe and consider it. 1. Strength and stability are entailed upon integrity: The way of the Lord (the providence of God, the… Read the whole commentary →