Proverbs 2:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

Proverbs 2:22 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 52:5
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Isaiah 3:10-11
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. …
Deuteronomy 7:22
And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Psalms 37:28
For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Proverbs 10:30
The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

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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. 22)

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