Proverbs 14:34
When the people of a nation continually act righteously, it causes that nation to be great; continually doing what is evil causes a nation to be disgraced.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:1“If you do what Yahweh our God tells you to do and faithfully obey everything that I am today commanding you to do, he will cause you to become greater than any other nation on the earth.
Judges 2:6After Joshua sent the Israeli people away, each group went to possess the land that had been allotted to them.
Psalms 107:34Sometimes he causes land that has produced lots of crops to become salty wastelands, with the result that they do not produce crops. He does that because the people who live there are very wicked.
Jeremiah 2:2to proclaim to everyone in Jerusalem. He said that I should tell them this [MET]: “I, Yahweh, remember that you very much wanted to please me long ago. You tried to please me like a bride tries to please her husband; You loved me, and you followed me through the desert [DOU].
Ezekiel 22:1Yahweh gave me another message. He said,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:34
33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known. Observe, 1. Modesty is the badge of wisdom. He that is truly wise hides his treasure, so as not to boast of it ( Matt. xiii. 44 ), though he does not hide his talent, so as not to trade with it. His wisdom rests in his heart; he digests what he knows, and has it ready to him, but does not unseasonably talk of it and make a noise with it. The heart is the seat of the affections, and there wisdom… Read the whole commentary →