Proverbs 29:2
When the righteous are powerful, the people rejoice; But when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
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Proverbs 11:10When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth; And when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
Proverbs 28:28When the wicked are exalted, men hide themselves; But, when they perish, the righteous increase.
Ecclesiastes 10:5There is an evil which I have seen under the sun; an error which proceedeth from a ruler.
Jeremiah 23:5Behold, the days are coming, saith Jehovah, When I will raise up from David a righteous Branch, And a king shall reign and prosper, And shall maintain justice and equity in the land.
Matthew 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he had been deceived by the magians, was greatly enraged; and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had ascertained from the magians.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:2
Miscellaneous Maxims. 1 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. Here, 1. The obstinacy of many wicked people in a wicked way is to be greatly lamented. They are often reproved by parents and friends, by magistrates and ministers, by the providence of God and by their own consciences, have had their sins set in order before them and fair warning given them of the consequences of them, but all in vain; they harden their necks. Perhaps they fling away,… Read the whole commentary →