6The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. …
Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. …
The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
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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