Proverbs 21:18

Wicked people bring on themselves the sufferings that they were trying to cause righteous people to experience [DOU].

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

In Context

17Those who spend their money to buy ◄things that give them pleasure/things that cause them to feel happy► will become poor; those who love to spend money to buy wine and nice/fancy food [MTY] will never become rich.

19It is better to live alone in a desert than to live with a wife who is always nagging and complaining.

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Cross References

Isaiah 43:3because I am Yahweh, your God, the Holy One of Israel, the one who rescues you. I will enable the army of the emperor of Persia to conquer Egypt instead of conquering you; similarly I will enable them to conquer Ethiopia, and Seba in Arabia, in order that you can be saved.

Isaiah 55:8I, Yahweh, declare that what I think is not the same as what you think, and what I do is very different from what you do.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:18

17 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich. Here is an argument against a voluptuous luxurious life, taken from the ruin it brings upon men's temporal interests. Here is 1. The description of an epicure: He loves pleasure. God allows us to use the delights of sense soberly and temperately, wine to make glad the heart and put vigour into the spirits, and oil to make the face to shine and beautify the countenance; but he that loves these, that sets his heart upon… Read the whole commentary →

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