Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has hope in his death.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
In Context
31He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors him has mercy on the poor.
Cross References
Job 13:15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Job 19:25For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Psalms 16:11You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Psalms 23:4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.
Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Proverbs 6:15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:32
31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. God is here pleased to interest himself more than one would imagine in the treatment given to the poor. 1. He reckons himself affronted in the injuries that are done them. Whosoever he be that wrongs a poor man, taking advantage against him because he is poor and cannot help himself, let him know that he puts an affront upon his Maker. God made him, and gave him his being, the same that is the author of our… Read the whole commentary →