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Proverbs 2:22

But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Chastity;   Death;   Wicked (People);   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Righteous-Wicked;   Wicked, the;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Transgression;   Wickedness;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Vomit;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
but the wicked will be cut off from the land,and the treacherous ripped out of it.
Hebrew Names Version
But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
King James Version
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
English Standard Version
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
New Century Version
But the wicked will be removed from the land, and the unfaithful will be thrown out of it.
New English Translation
but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.
Amplified Bible
But the wicked will be cut off from the land And the treacherous shall be [forcibly] uprooted and removed from it.
New American Standard Bible
But the wicked will be eliminated from the land, And the treacherous will be torn away from it.
World English Bible
But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But the wicked shalbe cut off from ye earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.
Legacy Standard Bible
But the wicked will be cut off from the landAnd the treacherous will be torn away from it.
Berean Standard Bible
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
Contemporary English Version
if you do wrong and can never be trusted, you will be rooted out.
Complete Jewish Bible
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, the unfaithful rooted out of it.
Darby Translation
but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it.
Easy-to-Read Version
But the wicked will be forced to leave. Those who lie and cheat will be thrown out of the land.
George Lamsa Translation
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth and the ungodly shall be rooted out of it.
Good News Translation
But God will snatch the wicked from the land and pull sinners out of it like plants from the ground.
Lexham English Bible
And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land, and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.
Literal Translation
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but the vngodly shalbe roted out of ye londe, and the wicked doers shalbe taken out of it.
American Standard Version
But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the faithless shall be plucked up out of it.
King James Version (1611)
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But the vngodly shall be cut of from the earth: and the wicked doers shalbe rooted out of it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.
English Revised Version
But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and they that deal treacherously shall be rooted out of it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But vnfeithful men schulen be lost fro the loond; and thei that doen wickidli, schulen be takun awey fro it.
Update Bible Version
But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
Webster's Bible Translation
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
New King James Version
But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.
New Living Translation
But the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted.
New Life Bible
but the sinful will be destroyed from the land, and those who are not faithful will be taken away from it.
New Revised Standard
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, the lawless, out of the earth, shall he cut off, and, traitors, shall they tear away therefrom.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken away from it.
Revised Standard Version
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Young's Literal Translation
And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But the wicked will be cut off from the land And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.

Contextual Overview

10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul; 11 Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you; 12 Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false; 13 Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads; 14 Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner; 15 Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil: 16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue; 17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind: 18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades: 19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the wicked: Proverbs 5:22, Proverbs 5:23, Job 18:16-18, Job 21:30, Psalms 37:20, Psalms 37:22, Psalms 37:28, Psalms 37:37, Psalms 37:38, Psalms 52:5, Psalms 104:35, Psalms 145:20, Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:11

rooted: or, plucked up, Deuteronomy 7:22, *marg. Deuteronomy 28:64

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:15 - cut off Deuteronomy 29:28 - rooted them 2 Samuel 4:11 - from 1 Kings 14:15 - root up Israel Job 18:17 - General Psalms 94:23 - And he Isaiah 13:9 - he shall

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.
Genesis 2:9
And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:19
And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.
Psalms 127:1
If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.
Proverbs 18:22
Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.
Proverbs 19:14
House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.
1 Timothy 2:13
For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
Hebrews 13:4
Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth,.... Suddenly by death; or in a judicial way by the hand of the civil magistrate, before they have lived out half their days; and shall not enjoy the good things of the earth they have been seeking for, and laying up, and promising themselves a long and quiet possession of; but, on the contrary, like unfruitful trees, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire; and, however, shall not dwell in the second Adam's earth, in the new earth, but shall perish out of his land, Psalms 10:16; see

Psalms 37:2;

and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it; such as have acted treacherously and perfidiously c, and are opposed to upright men; as the wicked are to the righteous, pure, and spotless; these shall not only be cut off as trees to the stump, but be rooted up, and have neither root nor branch left them; they shall have no posterity to succeed them, and their memory shall utterly perish; see Malachi 4:1; or "shall be scraped off", or "swept away" d, as the dust and dross of the earth, and the offscouring of all things.

c בוגדים "perfide agentis", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "perfidi", Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens. d יסחו "eradentur", Montanus, Mercerus, Gejerus; "everrentur", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Noticeable here is the Hebrew love of home and love of country. To “dwell in the land” is (compare Exodus 20:12; Leviticus 25:18, etc.) the highest blessing for the whole people and for individual men. contrast with it is the life of the sinner cut off from the land (not “earth”) of his fathers.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 2:22. Transgressors — בוגדים bogedim. The garment men, the hypocrites; those who act borrowed characters, who go under a cloak; dissemblers. All such shall be rooted out of the land; they shall not be blessed with posterity. In general it is so: and were it not so, one evil offspring succeeding another, adding their own to their predecessors' vices, the earth would become so exceedingly corrupt that a second flood, or a fire, would be necessary to purge it.


 
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