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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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Matthew Henry

(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. ...

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