Proverbs 11:9
An hypocrite with his mouth hurteth his neighbour: but the righteous shall be deliuered by knowledge.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
8The righteous escapeth out of trouble, and the wicked shall come in his steade.
10In the prosperitie of the righteous the citie reioyceth, and when the wicked perish, there is ioye.
Cross References
1 Kings 13:18And he said vnto him, I am a Prophet also as thou art, and an Angel spake vnto me by the worde of the Lord, saying, Bring him againe with thee into thine house, that hee may eate bread and drinke water: but he lyed vnto him.
1 Kings 22:20And the Lord sayd, Who shall entise Ahab that he may go and fall at Ramoth Gilead? And one said on this maner, and another sayd on that maner.
Job 34:30Because the hypocrite doeth reigne, and because the people are snared.
Psalms 55:20Hee layed his hande vpon such, as be at peace with him, and he brake his couenant.
Proverbs 4:5Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth.
Matthew 7:15Beware of false prophets, which come to you, in sheepes clothing, but inwardly they are rauening wolues.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:9
8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead. As always in death, so sometimes in life, the righteous are remarkably favoured and the wicked crossed. 1. Good people are helped out of the distresses which they thought themselves lost in, and their feet are set in a large room, Ps. lxvi. 12 ; xxxiv. 19 . God has found out a way to deliver his people even when they have despaired and their enemies have triumphed, as if the wilderness had shut them in. 2. The wicked have fallen into… Read the whole commentary →