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Proverbs 2:22

But the wicked will be forced to leave. Those who lie and cheat will be thrown out of the land.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Chastity;   Death;   Wicked (People);   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Righteous-Wicked;   Wicked, the;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Transgression;   Wickedness;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Vomit;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
but the wicked will be cut off from the land,and the treacherous ripped out of it.
Hebrew Names Version
But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
King James Version
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
English Standard Version
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
New Century Version
But the wicked will be removed from the land, and the unfaithful will be thrown out of it.
New English Translation
but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.
Amplified Bible
But the wicked will be cut off from the land And the treacherous shall be [forcibly] uprooted and removed from it.
New American Standard Bible
But the wicked will be eliminated from the land, And the treacherous will be torn away from it.
World English Bible
But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But the wicked shalbe cut off from ye earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.
Legacy Standard Bible
But the wicked will be cut off from the landAnd the treacherous will be torn away from it.
Berean Standard Bible
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
Contemporary English Version
if you do wrong and can never be trusted, you will be rooted out.
Complete Jewish Bible
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, the unfaithful rooted out of it.
Darby Translation
but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it.
George Lamsa Translation
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth and the ungodly shall be rooted out of it.
Good News Translation
But God will snatch the wicked from the land and pull sinners out of it like plants from the ground.
Lexham English Bible
And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land, and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.
Literal Translation
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but the vngodly shalbe roted out of ye londe, and the wicked doers shalbe taken out of it.
American Standard Version
But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
Bible in Basic English
But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the faithless shall be plucked up out of it.
King James Version (1611)
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But the vngodly shall be cut of from the earth: and the wicked doers shalbe rooted out of it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.
English Revised Version
But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and they that deal treacherously shall be rooted out of it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But vnfeithful men schulen be lost fro the loond; and thei that doen wickidli, schulen be takun awey fro it.
Update Bible Version
But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
Webster's Bible Translation
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
New King James Version
But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.
New Living Translation
But the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted.
New Life Bible
but the sinful will be destroyed from the land, and those who are not faithful will be taken away from it.
New Revised Standard
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, the lawless, out of the earth, shall he cut off, and, traitors, shall they tear away therefrom.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken away from it.
Revised Standard Version
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Young's Literal Translation
And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But the wicked will be cut off from the land And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.

Contextual Overview

10 You will gain wisdom, and knowledge will bring you joy. 11 Planning ahead will protect you, and understanding will guard you. 12 These will keep you from following the wrong path and will protect you from those who have evil plans. 13 Such people have left the straight path and now walk in darkness. 14 They enjoy doing evil and are happy with the confusion it brings. 15 Their ways are crooked; they lie and cheat. 16 Wisdom will save you from that other woman, another man's wife, who tempts you with sweet words. 17 She married when she was young, but then she left her husband. She forgot the marriage vows she made before God. 18 Going into her house leads to death. She will lead you to the grave. 19 All who enter lose their life and never return.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the wicked: Proverbs 5:22, Proverbs 5:23, Job 18:16-18, Job 21:30, Psalms 37:20, Psalms 37:22, Psalms 37:28, Psalms 37:37, Psalms 37:38, Psalms 52:5, Psalms 104:35, Psalms 145:20, Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:11

rooted: or, plucked up, Deuteronomy 7:22, *marg. Deuteronomy 28:64

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:15 - cut off Deuteronomy 29:28 - rooted them 2 Samuel 4:11 - from 1 Kings 14:15 - root up Israel Job 18:17 - General Psalms 94:23 - And he Isaiah 13:9 - he shall

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the East, in a place named Eden. He put the man he made in that garden.
Genesis 2:9
Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.
Genesis 2:19
The Lord God used dust from the ground and made every animal in the fields and every bird in the air. He brought all these animals to the man, and the man gave them all a name.
Psalms 127:1

A song from Solomon for going up to the Temple.

If it is not the Lord who builds a house, the builders are wasting their time. If it is not the Lord who watches over the city, the guards are wasting their time.
Proverbs 18:22
If you find a wife, you have found something good. She shows that the Lord is happy with you.
Proverbs 19:14
People receive houses and money from their parents, but a good wife is a gift from the Lord .
1 Timothy 2:13
because Adam was made first. Eve was made later.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by everyone. And every marriage should be kept pure between husband and wife. God will judge guilty those who commit sexual sins and adultery.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth,.... Suddenly by death; or in a judicial way by the hand of the civil magistrate, before they have lived out half their days; and shall not enjoy the good things of the earth they have been seeking for, and laying up, and promising themselves a long and quiet possession of; but, on the contrary, like unfruitful trees, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire; and, however, shall not dwell in the second Adam's earth, in the new earth, but shall perish out of his land, Psalms 10:16; see

Psalms 37:2;

and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it; such as have acted treacherously and perfidiously c, and are opposed to upright men; as the wicked are to the righteous, pure, and spotless; these shall not only be cut off as trees to the stump, but be rooted up, and have neither root nor branch left them; they shall have no posterity to succeed them, and their memory shall utterly perish; see Malachi 4:1; or "shall be scraped off", or "swept away" d, as the dust and dross of the earth, and the offscouring of all things.

c בוגדים "perfide agentis", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "perfidi", Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens. d יסחו "eradentur", Montanus, Mercerus, Gejerus; "everrentur", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Noticeable here is the Hebrew love of home and love of country. To “dwell in the land” is (compare Exodus 20:12; Leviticus 25:18, etc.) the highest blessing for the whole people and for individual men. contrast with it is the life of the sinner cut off from the land (not “earth”) of his fathers.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 2:22. Transgressors — בוגדים bogedim. The garment men, the hypocrites; those who act borrowed characters, who go under a cloak; dissemblers. All such shall be rooted out of the land; they shall not be blessed with posterity. In general it is so: and were it not so, one evil offspring succeeding another, adding their own to their predecessors' vices, the earth would become so exceedingly corrupt that a second flood, or a fire, would be necessary to purge it.


 
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