Proverbs 21:18
A wicked person is ransom for the righteous person, 1 and the treacherous person is ransom for upright people. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
In Context
17Whoever loves pleasure will become poor; 1 the one who loves wine and oil will not be rich. 1
19It is better to live in the desert 1 than with a quarreling and angry wife. 1
Cross References
Isaiah 43:3For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. 1 I have given Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. 1
Isaiah 55:8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1
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 →