Proverbs 11:6
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
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Gill's Exposition
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them,.... From death, as in Pro 11:4; and from falling by sin, totally and finally; or into it, so as to perish eternally; as well as it shall deliver…
These two verses are, in effect, the same, and both to the same purport with Pro 11:3. For the truths are here of such certainty and weight that they cannot be too often inculcated. Let us govern…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
naughtiness mischief, R.V., ἀπωλεία, LXX. But desires(as the same Heb. word is rendered in Pro 10:3, R.V.), or aimsgives a good sense: "in insidiis suis capiuntur iniqui." Vulg.
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