Proverbs 21:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

Proverbs 21:18 —

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Proverbs 11:8
The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
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. …
Isaiah 53:4-5
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. …
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Isaiah 55:8-9
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 18)

This intimates, 1. What should be done by the justice of men: The wicked, that are the troublers of a land, ought to be punished, for the preventing and turning away of those national judgments which otherwise will be inflicted and in which even the righteous are many times involved. Thus when Achan was stoned he was a ransom for the camp of righteous Israel; and the seven sons of Saul, when they…

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

(vv. 18)

18. (Compare Pr 11:8). By suffering what they had devised for the righteous, or brought on them, the wicked became their ransom, in the usual sense of substitutes (compare Jos 7:26; Es 7:9).