Proverbs 11:31
29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked 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 the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
Read in contextJeremiah 25:29
For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
Read in context1 Corinthians 11:30–32
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
Read in contextProverbs 13:21
Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.
Read in context2 Samuel 12:9–12
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Read in context2 Samuel 7:14–15
I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
Read in context1 Kings 13:24
And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.
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