Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall.
Young's Literal Translation
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In Context
4Wealth profiteth not in a day of wrath, And righteousness delivereth from death.
6The righteousness of the upright delivereth them, And in mischief the treacherous are captured.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:23And Ahithophel hath seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddleth the ass, and riseth and goeth unto his house, unto his city, and giveth charge unto his household, and strangleth himself, and dieth, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.
Job 18:7Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.
Proverbs 1:18And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 3:6In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.
Proverbs 11:3The integrity of the upright leadeth them, And the perverseness of the treacherous destroyeth them.
Proverbs 14:32In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death [is] the righteous.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:5
4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death. Note, 1. The day of death will be a day of wrath. It is a messenger of God's wrath; therefore when Moses had meditated on man's mortality he takes occasion thence to admire the power of God's anger, Ps. cx. 11 . It is a debt owing, not to nature, but to God's justice. After death the judgment, and that is a day of wrath, Rev. vi. 17 . 2. Riches will stand men in no stead that day. They will neither put by the stroke nor ease the… Read the whole commentary →