5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. …
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. …
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-6)These two verses are, in effect, the same, and both to the same purport with Prov. 11:3. For the truths are here of such certainty and weight that they cannot be too often inculcated. Let us govern ourselves by these principles. I. That the ways of religion are plain and safe, and in them we may enjoy a holy security. A living principle of honesty and grace will be, 1. Our best direction in the ri…
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