Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the perfect makes his way right, || And by his wickedness the wicked fall.
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4Wealth does not profit in a day of wrath, || And righteousness delivers from death.
6The righteousness of the upright delivers them, || And in mischief the treacherous are captured.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:23And Ahithophel has seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddles the donkey, and rises and goes to his house, to his city, and gives charge to his household, and strangles himself, and dies, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.
Job 18:7The steps of his strength are restricted, || And his own counsel casts him down.
Proverbs 1:18And they lay wait for their own blood, || They watch secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 3:6In all your ways know Him, || And He makes your paths straight.
Proverbs 11:3The integrity of the upright leads them, || And the perverseness of the treacherous destroys them.
Proverbs 14:32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness, || And the righteous [is] trustful in his death.
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 →