Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
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Gill's Exposition
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth,.... Which Aben Ezra understands of the recompence of their good works. There is a reward for the righteous, and which they have now in keeping,…
Barnes' Notes
The sense would appear to be, “The righteous is requited, i. e., is punished for his lesser sins, or as a discipline; much more the wicked, etc.” Compare 1Pe 4:18.
Matthew Henry
This, I think, is the only one of Solomon's proverbs that has that note of attention prefixed to it, Behold! which intimates that it contains not only an evident truth, which may be beheld, but an…
Cambridge Bible
shall be recompensed This might mean, shall receive, in each case, the return due to him; the righteous shall be rewarded(as the same Heb. word is rendered in Pro 13:13) and the wicked punished(comp.…
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