Proverbs 11:6 (BSB)

The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the faithless are trapped by their own desires.

From Proverbs 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 11:6

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 11:5-6: These two verses are, in effect, the same, and both to the same purport with Pro 11:3. For the truths are here of such certainty and weight that they cannot be too often inculcated. Let us govern ourselves by these principles. I. That the ways of religion are plain and safe, and in them we may enjoy a holy security. A living principle of honesty and grace will be, 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 11:6: The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them,.... From death, as in Pro 11:4; and from falling by sin, totally and finally; or into it, so as to perish eternally; as well as it shall deliver those out of Babylon, who are the Lord's people, that will be found therein when that is about to fall; see Rev 18:4; but transgressors shall be taken in...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 11:6: deliver them--that is, from evil, which the wicked suffer by their own doings (Pro 5:22; Psa 9:16).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 11:6: Pro 11:6 6 The rectitude of the upright saveth them, And in their own covetousness are the faithless taken. The integrity of those who go straight forward and straight through, without permitting themselves to turn aside on crooked ways, delivers them from the snares which are laid for them, the dangers they encounter; while, on the contrary, the faithless, though they mask their intentions ever...