Proverbs 10:30
The righteous to the age is not moved, And the wicked inhabit not the earth.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
In Context
29The way of Jehovah [is] strength to the perfect, And ruin to workers of iniquity.
31The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And the tongue of frowardness is cut out.
Cross References
Psalms 15:5His silver he hath not given in usury, And a bribe against the innocent Hath not taken; Whoso is doing these is not moved to the age!
Psalms 37:9For evil doers are cut off, As to those waiting on Jehovah, they possess the land.
Psalms 37:28For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.
Psalms 112:6For — to the age he is not moved; For a memorial age-during is the righteous.
Proverbs 2:21For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
Proverbs 10:25As the passing by of a hurricane, So the wicked is not, And the righteous is a foundation age-during.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:30-31
29 The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. 30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. These two verses are to the same purport with those next before, intimating the happiness of the godly and the misery of the wicked; it is necessary that this be inculcated upon us, so loth are we to believe and consider it. 1. Strength and stability are entailed upon integrity: The way of the Lord (the providence of God, the… Read the whole commentary →