the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Proverbs 21:18
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The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; And the treacherous [comes] in the stead 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 faithless are taken in the place of the upright.
The wicked [shall be] a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; The treacherous for the upright.
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, and the traitor for 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 cometh in the stead 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 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 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 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 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.
The wicked shalbe a ransome for the iust, and the transgressour for the righteous.
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 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 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 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 shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
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 wicked [is] an atonement for the righteous, And for the upright the treacherous dealer.
The vngodly shalbe geuen for the rightuous, & the wicked for the iust.
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.
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, And the unfaithful for the upright.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, And the treacherous is in the place of the upright.
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
Then he added, "I will give you more descendants than you can count."
As for Ishmael, I will bless him also, just as you have asked. I will make him extremely fruitful and multiply his descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
But God told Abraham, "Do not be upset over the boy and your servant. Do whatever Sarah tells you, for Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted.
But I will also make a nation of the descendants of Hagar's son because he is your son, too."
Go to him and comfort him, for I will make a great nation from his descendants."
Abimelech asked, "Why have you set these seven apart from the others?"
Then he named the place Beersheba (which means "well of the oath"), because that was where they had sworn the oath.
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.
