Proverbs 11:19 (BSB)

Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.

From Proverbs 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 11:19

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 11:19: It is here shown that righteousness, not only by the divine judgment, will end in life, and wickedness in death, but that righteousness, in its own nature, has a direct tendency to life and wickedness to death. 1. True holiness is true happiness; it is a preparative for it, a pledge and earnest of it. Righteousness inclines, disposes, and leads, the soul to life. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 11:19: As righteousness tendeth to life,.... Or, is unto life: not mere outward acts of moral righteousness; these may be done where there is no principle of spiritual life, and are no other than dead works, and will never bring to everlasting life; indeed the best righteousness of man's is no justification of life, nor can it entitle to it, nor is meritorious of it.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 11:19: Inference from Pro 11:18 (compare Pro 11:5-6; Pro 10:16).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 11:19: Pro 11:19 19 Genuine righteousness reaches to life, And he who pursues evil does it to his death. The lxx translate υἱὸς δίκαιος, and the Syrian follows this unwarrantable quid pro quo; the Bible uses the phrase בן־עולה and the like, but not בן־צדקה. The Graec. Venet. (translating οὕτω) deprives the distich of its supposed independence. The Targ. renders כּן with the following ו as correlates, sic ...