THEOSISProverbs 11:6Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The justice of the righteous shall deliver them: and the unjust shall be caught in their own snares.
צִדְקַ֣ת יְ֭שָׁרִים תַּצִּילֵ֑ם וּ֝בְהַוַּ֗ת בֹּגְדִ֥ים יִלָּכֵֽדוּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Eccl 10:8He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
- Prov 5:22His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
- 1 Sam 12:3Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you.
- 1 Sam 12:4And they said: Thou hast not wronged us, nor oppressed us, nor taken ought at any man's hand.
- Ps 7:15Behold he hath been in labour with injustice: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth iniquity.
- Ps 7:16He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made.
- Gen 30:33And my justice shall answer for me tomorrow before thee, when the time of the bargain shall come; and all that is not of divers colours, and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall accuse me of theft.
- Gen 31:37And searched all my household stuff? What hast thou found of all the substance of thy house? lay it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and let them judge between me and thee.