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Proverbs 11:7-9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Proverbs 11:7-9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
7 When a person dies, hope is destroyed;(A)
expectation pinned on wealth is destroyed.[a]
8 The just are rescued from a tight spot,
but the wicked fall into it instead.
9 By a word the impious ruin their neighbors,(B)
but through their knowledge the just are rescued.[b]
Footnotes
- 11:7 An ancient scribe added “wicked” to person in colon A, for the statement that hope ends at death seemed to deny life after death. The saying, however, is not concerned with life after death but with the fact that in the face of death all hopes based on one’s own resources are vain. The aphorism is the climax of the preceding six verses; human resources cannot overcome mortality (cf. Ps 49:13).
- 11:9 What the wicked express harms others; what the righteous leave unsaid protects. Verses 9–14 are related in theme: the effect of good and bad people, especially their words, on their community.
Proverbs 11:7-9
New International Version
Proverbs 11:7-9
New International Version
8 The righteous person is rescued from trouble,
and it falls on the wicked instead.(C)
9 With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors,
but through knowledge the righteous escape.(D)
Footnotes
- Proverbs 11:7 Two Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate, Syriac and Targum When the wicked die, their hope perishes; / all they expected from
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