Proverbs 11:5
The tzidkat tamim (righteousness of the blameless) shall make his derech straight, 1 but the rasha shall fall by his own evil. 1
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2 Samuel 17:23And when Achitophel saw that his etza (counsel, advice) was not followed, he saddled his chamor, and arose, and went home to his bais, to his town, and put his bais (household) in order, vayyekhanak (and he strangled, hanged himself), and died, and was buried in the kever aviv (tomb of his father).
Job 18:7The steps of his vigor shall be shortened, 1 and his own etzah (counsel, scheme) shall cast him down. 1
Proverbs 1:18And they lie in wait for their own dahm; 1 they lurk secretly for their own nafshot. 1
Proverbs 3:6In all thy drakhim acknowledge Him, 1 and He shall make yosher thy orkhot (paths). 1
Proverbs 11:3The integrity of the yesharim (upright ones) shall guide them, 1 but the deceit of the bogedim (treacherous ones) shall destroy them. 1
Proverbs 14:32The reshah is banished in his ra'ah, 1 but the tzaddik hath refuge in his mot (death). 1
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 →