Proverbs 11:9
Godless people can ruin others by what they say [MTY], but righteous people will be saved by their ◄own good sense/being wise►.
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1 Kings 13:18Then the old prophet said to him, “I also am a prophet, like you are. Yahweh sent an angel to tell me that I should take you home with me and give you some food and drink.” But the old man was lying when he said that.
1 Kings 22:20And Yahweh said, ‘Who can persuade Ahab to go to fight against the people of Ramoth, in order that he may be killed there?’ Some suggested one thing, and others suggested something else.
Job 34:30and if God hides his face with the result that he does not see that ruler or punish him, no one will be able to prevent that ruler from doing those things.
Psalms 55:20My companion, whom I mentioned previously, betrayed his friends and broke the agreement that he made with them.
Proverbs 4:5Obtain wisdom and understanding, and ◄do not abandon/hold fast to► [LIT] what I have taught you.
Matthew 7:15“Beware of people who come to you and say falsely that they are telling you what God has said. They seem to be harmless, but they are extremely harmful. They are like wolves that have covered themselves with sheepskins to make people believe that they are sheep [MET], but they actually are wolves that attack people [MET].
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 →