Proverbs 11:9
7 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- With his mouth the ungodly man destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous are rescued.
- KJV
- An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
- WEB
- With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.
- ASV
- With his mouth the godless man destroyeth his neighbor; But through knowledge shall the righteous be delivered.
- DARBY
- With his mouth a hypocrite destroyeth his neighbour; but through knowledge are the righteous delivered.
- BLB
- With the mouth a godless one destroys his neighbor, and with knowledge righteous ones will be delivered.
- ÅB
- Med munnen ødelegger den gudløse sin neste, men ved sin kunnskap utfries de rettferdige.
- OTB
- Med sine munner ødelegger de gudløse sine naboer, men gjennom kunnskap finner de rettferdige befrielse.
- B1930
- Med munnen ødelegger den gudløse sin næste, men ved sin kunnskap utfries de rettferdige.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 2:10–16
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Read in contextProverbs 4:5–6
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Read in context1 John 2:27
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Read in context1 Timothy 4:1–3
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Read in contextPsalms 55:20–21
He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
Read in context2 Corinthians 11:13–15
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Read in context2 Peter 3:16–18
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Read in context1 John 2:21
I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
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