Proverbs 2:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

Proverbs 2:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 37:29
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
Psalms 37:9
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Proverbs 10:30
The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
Psalms 84:11
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Job 42:12
So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 10-22)

The scope of these verses is to show, 1. What great advantage true wisdom will be of to us; it will keep us from the paths of sin, which lead to ruin, and will therein do us a greater kindness than if it enriched us with all the wealth of the world. 2. What good use we should make of the wisdom God gives us; we must use it for our own guidance in the paths of virtue, and for the arming of us again…

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

(vv. 21)

21-22. (Compare Psa 37:3, 9, 22, 27).