Proverbs 14:19
Some day evil people will bow down in front of righteous people to show that they respect them; they will humbly stand at the gates of the houses of righteous people and request their help.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 42:6At that time Joseph was the governor of Egypt. He was the one who sold grain to people who came from all over Egypt and from many other countries [HYP] to buy grain. So when Joseph’s brothers arrived, they were told that it was necessary for them to talk with Joseph. So they went to him and prostrated themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
Exodus 8:8Then the king summoned Moses/me and said, “Ask Yahweh to take away these frogs from me and my people. After that happens, I will allow your people to go, in order that they can offer sacrifices to Yahweh.”
Exodus 11:8Then all these officials of yours will come and bow down before me and will say, “Please get out of Egypt, you and all the Israeli people!”’ After that, I will leave Egypt!” After Moses/I said that, he/I very angrily left the king.
2 Kings 3:12Jehoshaphat said, “ It will be good to ask him, because he speaks what Yahweh tells him to say.” So those three kings went to Elisha.
Psalms 49:14They are certain to die just like sheep, when a shepherd leads them away to be slaughtered. [PRS, MET] In the morning righteous people will rule over them, and then those wealthy people will die and their bodies will quickly decay in their graves; they will be where dead people are, far from their homes.
Isaiah 60:14The descendants of those who ◄oppressed you/treated you cruelly► will come and bow down to you; those who despised you will prostrate themselves in front of your feet. They will say that your city on Zion Hill is the City of Yahweh, where the Holy One of Israel lives.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:19
18 The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. Note, 1. Sin is the shame of sinners: The simple, who love simplicity, get nothing by it; they inherit folly. They have it by inheritance, so some. This corruption of nature is derived from our first parents, and all the calamities that attend it we have by kind; it was the inheritance they transmitted to their degenerate race, an hereditary disease. They are as fond of it as a man of his inheritance, hold it as fast, and are as loth to part… Read the whole commentary →