Proverbs 10:25 (BSB)
When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
From Proverbs 10. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 10:25
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 10:24-25: It is here said, and said again, to the righteous, that it shall be well with them, and to the wicked, Woe to them; and these are set the one over against the other, for their mutual illustration. I. It shall be as ill with the wicked as they can fear, and as well with the righteous as they can desire. 1.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 10:25: As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more,.... The wicked themselves are like a whirlwind, noisy, boisterous, and blustering; such is the man of sin, who speaks like a dragon, breathing out slaughter and threatening against the saints; and so are his followers, fierce and heady, and like a whirlwind, pernicious and destructive, bearing down, carrying away, and destroying all before it; so...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 10:25: (Compare Psa 1:4; Psa 37:9-10, Psa 37:36). righteous . . . foundation--well laid and firm (Mat 7:24-25).
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 10:25: Pro 10:25 There now follows a series of proverbs, broken by only one dissimilar proverb, on the immoveable continuance of the righteous: 25 When the storm sweeps past, it is no more with the wicked; But the righteous is a building firm for ever.