Proverbs 10:30 (BSB)

The righteous will never be shaken, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.

From Proverbs 10. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 10:30

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 10:29-30: These two verses are to the same purport with those next before, intimating the happiness of the godly and the misery of the wicked; it is necessary that this be inculcated upon us, so loth are we to believe and consider it. 1.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 10:30: The righteous shall never be removed,.... They may be removed from place to place in this world, through the persecutions of their enemies, or through one providence or another, as they often are; they may be removed from a state of outward prosperity to a state of adversity, as Job was; they may be removed from spiritual and comfortable frames of soul to carnal or...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 10:30: (Compare Pro 12:3; Psa 37:9-11; Psa 102:28). earth--or, "land of promise."
  • Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 10:30: The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. (n) They enjoy in this life by faith and hope, their everlasting life.