Proverbs 26:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.

Proverbs 26:10 —

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Cross-References

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Romans 2:6
Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
Proverbs 11:31
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 10)

Our translation gives this verse a different reading in the text and in the margin; and accordingly it expresses either, 1. The equity of a good God. The Master, or Lord (so Rab signifies), or, as we read it, The great God that formed all things at first, and still governs them in infinite wisdom, renders to every man according to his work. He rewards the fool, who sinned through ignorance, who kn…

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

(vv. 10)

10. Various versions of this are proposed (compare Margin). Better perhaps--“Much He injures (or literally, “wounds”) all who reward,” &c., that is, society is injured by encouraging evil men. transgressors--may be rendered “vagrants.” The word “God” is improperly supplied.