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Contemporary English Version

Proverbs 11:31

If good people are rewarded here on this earth, all who are cruel and mean will surely be punished.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God Continued...;   Judgment;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Recompense;   Reward-Punishment;   The Topic Concordance - Recompense/restitution;   Righteousness;   Sin;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Punishment of the Wicked, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Peter, First Epistle of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prov'erbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Proverbs, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Judgment, Divine;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 27;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If the righteous will be repaid on earth,how much more the wicked and sinful.
Hebrew Names Version
Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the eretz; How much more the wicked and the sinner!
King James Version
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
English Standard Version
If the righteous is repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!
New American Standard Bible
If the righteous will be repaid on the earth, How much more the wicked and the sinner!
New Century Version
Good people will be rewarded on earth, and the wicked and the sinners will be punished.
New English Translation
If the righteous are recompensed on earth, how much more the wicked sinner!
Amplified Bible
If the righteous will be rewarded on the earth [with godly blessings], How much more [will] the wicked and the sinner [be repaid with punishment]!
World English Bible
Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth; How much more the wicked and the sinner!
Geneva Bible (1587)
Beholde, the righteous shalbe recompensed in the earth: howe much more the wicked and the sinner?
Legacy Standard Bible
If the righteous will be repaid in the earth,How much more the wicked and the sinner!
Berean Standard Bible
If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
Complete Jewish Bible
If the righteous are paid what they deserve here on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!
Darby Translation
Behold, the righteous shall be requited on the earth: how much more the wicked and the sinner.
Easy-to-Read Version
If good people are rewarded here on earth, then surely those who do evil will also get what they deserve.
George Lamsa Translation
If the righteous lives in difficulty, how much more the wicked and the sinner!
Good News Translation
Those who are good are rewarded here on earth, so you can be sure that wicked and sinful people will be punished.
Lexham English Bible
If the righteous on earth will be repaid, how much more the wicked and sinner.
Literal Translation
Behold, the righteous shall be rewarded in the earth; much more the wicked and the sinner.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf ye rightuous be recopesed vpo earth how moch more the the vngodly & ye synner?
American Standard Version
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth; How much more the wicked and the sinner!
Bible in Basic English
If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Behold, the righteous shall be requited in the earth; how much more the wicked and the sinner!
King James Version (1611)
Behold, the righteous shalbe recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If the ryghteous be recompensed vpon earth: howe much more then the vngodly and the sinner?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
English Revised Version
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: how much more the wicked and the sinner!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If a iust man receyueth in erthe, how miche more an vnfeithful man, and synnere.
Update Bible Version
Look, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: How much more the wicked and the sinner!
Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed upon the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
New King James Version
If the righteous will be recompensed on the earth, How much more the ungodly and the sinner.
New Living Translation
If the righteous are rewarded here on earth, what will happen to wicked sinners?
New Life Bible
If those who are right with God will be paid on earth, how much more the sinful and the wrong-doer!
New Revised Standard
If the righteous are repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Lo! the righteous, in the earth shall be recompensed, how much more the lawless and the sinner.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner.
Revised Standard Version
If the righteous is requited on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!
Young's Literal Translation
Lo, the righteous in the earth is recompensed, Surely also the wicked and the sinner!
THE MESSAGE
If good people barely make it, what's in store for the bad!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
If the righteous will be rewarded in the earth, How much more the wicked and the sinner!

Contextual Overview

31 If good people are rewarded here on this earth, all who are cruel and mean will surely be punished.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Samuel 7:14, 2 Samuel 7:15, 2 Samuel 12:9-12, 1 Kings 13:24, Jeremiah 25:29, 1 Corinthians 11:30-32, 1 Peter 4:17, 1 Peter 4:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 29:25 - wherefore Deuteronomy 7:10 - repayeth 1 Kings 13:26 - the man Job 34:33 - he will Proverbs 26:10 - both Luke 23:31 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 11:2
but after some of them moved from the east and settled in Babylonia,
Genesis 11:3
they said: Let's build a city with a tower that reaches to the sky! We'll use hard bricks and tar instead of stone and mortar. We'll become famous, and we won't be scattered all over the world.
Genesis 11:5
But when the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower,
Genesis 11:26
After Terah was seventy years old, he had three sons: Abram, Nahor, and Haran, who became the father of Lot. Terah's sons were born in the city of Ur in Chaldea, and Haran died there before the death of his father. The following is the story of Terah's descendants.
Genesis 12:4
Abram was seventy-five years old when the Lord told him to leave the city of Haran. He obeyed and left with his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and slaves they had gotten while in Haran. When they came to the land of Canaan,
Genesis 15:7
The Lord said to Abram, "I brought you here from Ur in Chaldea, and I gave you this land."
Genesis 24:10
Soon after that, the servant loaded ten of Abraham's camels with valuable gifts. Then he set out for the city in northern Syria, where Abraham's brother Nahor lived.
Genesis 24:15
While he was still praying, a beautiful unmarried young woman came by with a water jar on her shoulder. She was Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Abraham's brother Nahor and his wife Milcah. Rebekah walked past Abraham's servant, then went over to the well, and filled her water jar. When she started back,
Genesis 27:43
Now listen carefully and do what I say. Go to the home of my brother Laban in Haran
Hebrews 11:8
Abraham had faith and obeyed God. He was told to go to the land that God had said would be his, and he left for a country he had never seen.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, though not "for" keeping, the commandments of God; they have the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come, and which is made good to them; they have every good thing now which is proper and convenient for them; and they shall be recompensed in the new earth, in which only righteous persons will dwell. But it seems better, with Jarchi, to interpret it of the recompence of their sins and transgressions; that is, of their chastisements and afflictions, with which they are chastised by their heavenly Father, when they sin against him; which are all in love and for their good; and which they have only here on earth, while they are in this world; they will be all over in another, when there will be no more sin, and no more chastisement for it, much less condemnation; see 1 Corinthians 11:32;

much more the wicked and the sinner; who shall not only be punished on earth as they often are, but in hell to all eternity. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render the whole thus; "if the righteous be scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" Which words are used by the Apostle Peter, to show, that if judgment or chastisement begin at the house of God, or with the righteous, that the end of the wicked must be very bad; which entirely agrees with the sense of this passage; see 1 Peter 4:17; a "behold" is prefixed to the whole, as a note, either of admiration, or rather of attention to what is sure and certain, and worthy of regard and consideration. The Targum is,

"behold, the righteous are strengthened in the earth; but the wicked and the sinners shall be consumed out of the earth;''

which seems to agree with Aben Ezra's sense of the words; see

Psalms 104:35.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 1 Peter 4:18.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 11:31. Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth, c. — The Septuagint, Syrian, and Arabic read this verse as follows: "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" And this St. Peter quotes literatim, 1 Peter 4:18, where see the note. "See Clarke "1 Peter 4:18".


 
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