The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.
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.
Commenting on Proverbs 10:29-30
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...
(Compare Pro 12:3; Psa 37:9-11; Psa 102:28). earth--or, "land of promise."