Proverbs 11:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.

Proverbs 11:8 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 6:23-24
Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God. …
Proverbs 21:18
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
Esther 7:9-10
And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon. …
Isaiah 43:3-4
For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 8)

As always in death, so sometimes in life, the righteous are remarkably favoured and the wicked crossed. 1. Good people are helped out of the distresses which they thought themselves lost in, and their feet are set in a large room, Ps. 66:12; 34:19. God has found out a way to deliver his people even when they have despaired and their enemies have triumphed, as if the wilderness had shut them in. 2.…

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

(vv. 8)

8. Perhaps the trouble prepared by the wicked, and which he inherits (compare Pr 11:6).