Proverbs 21:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright. ”

• Proverbs 21:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Compare the marginal reference. Evil doers seem to draw down the wrath of God upon their heads, and so become, as it were, the scapegoats of the comparatively righteous.

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• Proverbs 21:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  The (h) wicked [shall be] a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright. (h) God will cause that to fall on their own heads, which they intended against the just by delivering the...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Proverbs 21:1 . watercourses: not the natural brooks and wadys of Palestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia, which could be diverted in any direction at will. Prove...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the righteous . a righteous one. transgressor . traitor.

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• Proverbs 21:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright. The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous - God often in his judgments cuts off the wicked, in order to pr...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright. The wicked (shall be) a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright. The righteous are...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels of Egypt and Babylon ( Isaiah 58:11 ).

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• Proverbs 21:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous. — The righteous is “delivered out of trouble ( Proverbs 11:8 ; comp. Isaiah 57:1 ), and the wicked cometh in his stead” to receive upon his own head...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 22 WINE "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich."- Proverbs 21:17 THE Septuagint translation has an interesting addition to the prov...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Verse Proverbs 21:4 . The "lamp" of a man's life is his spirit. Where that is exalted and manifests itself in the high look and the proud heart, there is sin. All of which is to say that for a man t...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. When the scorner is p...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The wicked [shall be] a ransom for the righteous ,.... Not to make satisfaction for them, as Christ is a ransom for his people; but as a ransom is in the room of another, so the wicked cometh in the...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The wicked [shall be] a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright. Ver. 18. The wicked shall be a ransom. ] Heb., Copher, a cover, or an expiation; as Achan was for Israel...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous The wicked shall be brought into those troubles which were designed by wicked men against the righteous, and by that means, as by a ransom, the righte...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        18 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.       This intimates, 1. What should be done by the justice of men: The wicked, that are the tr...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The wicked shall be brought into those troubles which were either threatened by God or designed by wicked men against the righteous, and by that means, as by a ransom, the righteous shall be delivere...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 21:18 THE RANSOM OF THE RIGHTEOUS This verse must be understood to express the same truth as that in Isaiah 43:3 , in which Jehovah, speaking to the Hebrew people,...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 21:1 . The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will. The allusion is probably to the water-meads and the ditches in the corn fi...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water. We are to think of the little channels used for irrigation. As these are altogether under the...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 18. The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, for by the punishment which he suffers he atones, in a way, for the errors of the pious or is substituted by God for his intended victim, as H...

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• Proverbs 21:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 3:18 ; Isaiah 43:3 ; Isaiah 43:4 ; Isaiah 53:4 ; Isaiah 53:5 ; Isaiah 55:8 ; Isaiah 55:9 ; Proverbs 11:8

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• Proverbs 21:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  A ransom — The wicked shall be brought into those troubles, which were designed by wicked men for the righteous: thus Haman was a ransom for Mordecai.

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