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11 Even their descendants you will wipe out from the earth,
    their offspring from the human race.

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11 Though they plot evil(A) against you
    and devise wicked schemes,(B) they cannot succeed.

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The memory of the just serves as blessing,
    but the name of the wicked will rot.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 10:7 The name of the righteous continues to be used after their death in blessings such as “May you be as blessed as Abraham,” but the wicked, being enemies of God, do not live on in anyone’s memory. Their names rot with their bodies.

The name of the righteous(A) is used in blessings,[a]
    but the name of the wicked(B) will rot.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 10:7 See Gen. 48:20.