Proverbs 21:18
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, the treacherous for the upright.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
In Context
17He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.
19It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
Cross References
Isaiah 43:3For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
Isaiah 55:8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says the LORD.
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 →