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Proverbs 21:18
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The wicked are a ransom for the righteous,and the treacherous, for the upright.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; The treacherous for the upright.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and the traitor for the upright.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, And the treacherous is in the place of the upright.
Wicked people will suffer instead of good people, and those who cannot be trusted will suffer instead of those who do right.
The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, And the treacherous in the place of the upright [for they fall into their own traps].
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; The treacherous for the upright.
The wicked shalbe a ransome for the iust, and the transgressour for the righteous.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous,And the treacherous is in the place of the upright.
The wicked shall become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.
God's people will escape, but all who are wicked will pay the price.
The wicked serve as a ransom for the righteous, and likewise the perfidious for the upright.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and a treacherous [man] in the stead of the upright.
The wicked must pay for what happens to good people—the cheaters will be taken in exchange for the honest.
The wicked shall be given as a ransom for the righteous, and the deceitful for the upright.
The wicked bring on themselves the suffering they try to cause good people.
A ransom for the righteous is the wicked, and the faithless instead of the upright.
The wicked shall be a ransom for the just, and the treacherous in the place of the upright.
The vngodly shalbe geuen for the rightuous, & the wicked for the iust.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; And the treacherous cometh in the stead of the upright.
The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; and the faithless cometh in the stead of the upright.
The wicked shalbe a ransome for the righteous; and the transgressour for the vpright.
The vngodly shalbe a raunsome for the righteous: and the wicked for the iust.
and a transgressor is the abomination of a righteous man.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; and the treacherous cometh in the stead of the upright.
An vnpitouse man schal be youun for a iust man; and a wickid man schal be youun for a riytful man.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; And the treacherous [comes] in the stead of the upright.
The wicked [shall be] a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless are taken in the place of the upright.
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, And the unfaithful for the upright.
The wicked are punished in place of the godly, and traitors in place of the honest.
The sinful man is the price given for the man who is right with God, the man who is not faithful for the faithful man.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.
A ransom for the righteous, is the lawless, and, instead of upright men, the traitor.
The wicked is delivered up for the just: and the unjust for the righteous.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.
The wicked [is] an atonement for the righteous, And for the upright the treacherous dealer.
What a bad person plots against the good, boomerangs; the plotter gets it in the end.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, And the treacherous is in the place of the upright.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
wicked: Proverbs 11:8, Isaiah 43:3, Isaiah 43:4, Isaiah 53:4, Isaiah 53:5, Isaiah 55:8, Isaiah 55:9, 1 Peter 3:18
Reciprocal: Isaiah 51:23 - I will Daniel 3:22 - slew
Cross-References
And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The wicked [shall be] a ransom for the righteous,.... Not to make satisfaction for them, as Christ is a ransom for his people; but as a ransom is in the room of another, so the wicked cometh in the stead of the righteous, and into the trouble he is delivered from; as Haman for Mordecai, which instance Jarchi mentions; see Proverbs 11:8; or when a body of people are threatened with divine vengeance; and this falls upon the wicked, whose sins caused it, and the righteous are delivered from it; as in the case of Achan, and the seven sons of Saul, Joshua 7:26. And sometimes God turns the wrath of the princes of the earth from his own people, and causes it to fall upon the wicked, and so they are a ransom for them; as Sennacherib intended the destruction of the Jews, but was called off in providence to fall upon the Egyptians, Ethiopians, and Sabeans, and therefore they are said to be a ransom for them; see Isaiah 43:3; and sometimes wicked men are the means of a ransom or deliverance of the righteous, as Cyrus was of the Jews: and it may be considered, as the word used signifies a "cover" d, whether it will not bear this sense, that the wicked are a cover for the righteous, and oftentimes protect and defend them; so the earth helped the woman, Revelation 12:16;
and the transgressor for the upright; which are but different characters of the same persons, bad and good men; and the sense is the same as before.
d כופר.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Compare the marginal reference. Evil doers seem to draw down the wrath of God upon their heads, and so become, as it were, the scapegoats of the comparatively righteous.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 21:18. The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous — God often in his judgments cuts off the wicked, in order to prevent them from destroying the righteous. And in general, we find that the wicked fall into the traps and pits they have digged for the righteous.
