Proverbs 29:2

When righteous people are rulers, people are happy, but when wicked people rule, people ◄groan/are miserable►.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

In Context

1Some people remain stubborn [IDM] even though they are often reproved/warned about doing what is wrong, but some day they will be crushed/ruined, and nothing will be able to heal them.

3Those who are eager to become wise cause their parents to be glad; those who spend their time with prostitutes will end up giving all their money to them.

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Cross References

Esther 8:15Before Mordecai left the palace, he put on the blue and white robe and a large gold crown that the king had given him. He also put on a coat made of fine purple cloth. When the people in Susa heard the new law, they all shouted and cheered.

Proverbs 11:10When things go well for righteous people, the people in [MTY] their city are happy, and they shout joyfully when wicked people die.

Proverbs 28:28When wicked people become rulers, people hide because they are afraid of what those wicked people will do; but when wicked people are no longer rulers, good/righteous people will become the rulers.

Ecclesiastes 10:5There is something else that I have seen here on this earth, something that rulers sometimes do that is wrong/inappropriate:

Jeremiah 23:5Yahweh also says, “Some day I will appoint for you a righteous man who will be a descendant of King David. He will be a king who rules wisely. He will do what is just and right throughout the land.

Matthew 2:16While King Herod was still living, because he realized that he had been tricked by the men who studied the stars {the men who studied the stars had tricked him}, he became furious. Then, assuming that Jesus was still in Bethlehem or the surrounding regions, Herod sent soldiers there to kill all the boy babies two years old and younger. Herod calculated how old the baby was, according to what the men who studied the stars told him about when the star first appeared.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:2

Miscellaneous Maxims. 1 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. Here, 1. The obstinacy of many wicked people in a wicked way is to be greatly lamented. They are often reproved by parents and friends, by magistrates and ministers, by the providence of God and by their own consciences, have had their sins set in order before them and fair warning given them of the consequences of them, but all in vain; they harden their necks. Perhaps they fling away,… Read the whole commentary →

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