Proverbs 10:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

Proverbs 10:7 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 112:6
Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
Luke 1:48
For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
Psalms 109:13
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Mark 14:9
Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
2 Chronicles 24:16
And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.

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Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7)

Both the just and the wicked, when their days are fulfilled, must die. Between their bodies in the grave thee is no visible difference; between the souls of the one and the other, in the world of spirits, thee is a vast difference, and so there is, or ought to be, between their memories, which survive them. I. Good men are and ought to be well spoken of when they are gone; it is one of the blessin…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. blessed--literally, “for a blessing,” or praise. shall rot--literally, “be worm-eaten,” useless and disgusting.