Proverbs 10:30

The righteous shall never be removed,.... They may be removed from place to place in this world, through the persecutions of their enemies, or through one providence or another, as they often are;…

The wicked shall rot inhabit - The other and higher side of the same law of the divine government appears in Mat 5:5.

These two verses are to the same purport with those next before, intimating the happiness of the godly and the misery of the wicked; it is necessary that this be inculcated upon us, so loth are we to…

the earth Comp. Mat 5:5; or, the land(sc. of Canaan), as R.V. Comp. Pro 21:21-22; Exo 20:12. The law holds good, though its sphere of action may vary.