THEOSISProverbs 11:5Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.
צִדְקַ֣ת תָּ֭מִים תְּיַשֵּׁ֣ר דַּרְכּ֑וֹ וּ֝בְרִשְׁעָת֗וֹ יִפֹּ֥ל רָשָֽׁע׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 5:22His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
- Ps 9:15Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
- Ps 9:16I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.
- Prov 1:31Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
- Prov 1:32The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
- Prov 11:3The simplicity of the just shall guide them: and the deceitfulness of the wicked shall destroy them.
- Matt 27:4Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said: What is that to us? Look thou to it.
- Matt 27:5And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed and went and hanged himself with an halter.