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Proverbs 2:22

Wicked people will be expelled from this land, and people who are not trustworthy will be thrown {God will throw them} out of it.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

In Context

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.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:22He will expel those people-groups gradually. You should not try to expel all of them at one time, because if you did that, the number of wild animals would quickly increase, and you would not be able to get rid of them.

Deuteronomy 29:20Yahweh will not forgive anyone who is stubborn like that. Instead, he will be extremely angry [DOU] with that person, and that person will experience all the curses that I have told you about, until Yahweh gets rid of that person and his family [IDM].

1 Chronicles 10:13Saul died because he did not faithfully obey what Yahweh told him to do. He even went to a woman who talks to the spirits of dead people and asked her what he should do,

Job 21:30that wicked people usually do not suffer at the time when there are great disasters; that wicked people are the ones who are rescued when God is angry and punishes people [MTY]?

Psalms 37:22Those whom Yahweh has blessed will live safely in the land that he has given to them, but he will get rid of those people whom he has cursed.

Psalms 37:37Notice the people who have not done evil things, those who act righteously: their descendants will have peace in their inner beings.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 2:11-22

The Benefits Conferred by Wisdom. 10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: 16 To deliver thee from the strange… Read the whole commentary →

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