Proverbs 10:30
Righteous people will always be secure [LIT], but wicked people will be removed from their land (OR, from this earth).
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
In Context
29Yahweh protects [MET] those who live righteously, but he destroys those who do what is evil.
Cross References
Psalms 15:5They lend money to others without charging interest, and they never accept bribes in order to lie about people who have not done what is wrong. Those who do those things will never stop trusting God even if disastrous things happen to them.
Psalms 37:9Some day Yahweh will get rid of wicked people, but those who trust in Yahweh will live safely in the land that he has given to them.
Psalms 37:28That will happen because Yahweh likes to see people doing what is just, and he will never forsake righteous/godly people. He will protect them forever; but he will get rid of the children of wicked people.
Psalms 112:6Righteous people will not be overwhelmed/worried/distressed because of their troubles, and they will never be forgotten by other people.
Proverbs 2:21because only godly people will live in this land and receive God’s blessings; only those who have not done wrong will stay here for a long time.
Proverbs 10:25When storms come, the wicked will ◄be blown away/never be safe►, but righteous people will be safe forever.
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 →