Proverbs 11:9
A hypocrite corrupts his friend with the mouth, || And the righteous are drawn out by knowledge.
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In Context
8The righteous is drawn out from distress, || And the wicked goes in instead of him.
10A city exults in the good of the righteous, || And in the destruction of the wicked [is] singing.
Cross References
1 Kings 13:18And he says to him, “I [am] also a prophet like you, and a messenger spoke to me by the word of YHWH, saying, Bring him back with you to your house, and he eats bread and drinks water.” He has lied to him.
1 Kings 22:20and YHWH says, Who entices Ahab, and he goes up and falls in Ramoth-Gilead? And this one says thus, and that one is saying thus.
Job 34:30From the reigning of a profane man, || From the snares of a people;
Psalms 55:20He has sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, || He has defiled his covenant.
Proverbs 4:5Get wisdom, get understanding, || Do not forget, nor turn away || From the sayings of my mouth.
Matthew 7:15But take heed of the false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, and inwardly are ravenous wolves.
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 →