Proverbs 11:31
29 He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
- KJV
- Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
- WEB
- Behold, the righteous shall be repaid on the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!
- ASV
- Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: How much more the wicked and the sinner!
- DARBY
- Behold, the righteous shall be requited on the earth: how much more the wicked and the sinner.
- BLB
- Behold, a righteous one will be repaid in the land, surely also the ungodly and the sinner!
- ÅB
- Se, den rettferdige får sin lønn på jorden, hvor meget mere da den ugudelige og synderen!
- OTB
- Hvis de rettferdige blir belønnet på jorden, hvor mye mer de ugudelige og synderen!
- B1930
- Se, den rettferdige får sin lønn på jorden, hvor meget mere da den ugudelige og synderen!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Peter 4:17–18
For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?
Read in contextJeremiah 25:29
For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’
Read in context1 Corinthians 11:30–32
That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
Read in contextProverbs 13:21
Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.
Read in context2 Samuel 12:9–12
Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
Read in context2 Samuel 7:14–15
I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
Read in context1 Kings 13:24
As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.
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