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Selected Verse: Proverbs 11:18 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 11:18 |
King James |
The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
a deceitful work--or, "wages," which fail to satisfy, or flee away (Pro 10:2; Pro 23:5).
sure reward--or, "gain," as from trading (Hos 10:12; Gal 6:8-9). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Deceitful work - Work which deceives and disappoints the worker; in contrast with the "sure reward" of the second clause.
Omit "shall be" and render, "but he that soweth righteousness worketh a sure reward." |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
Man consists of body and soul. In regard to both, benevolence brings its reward, and hatred its punishment.
The godless acquires deceptive gain;
But he that soweth righteousness, a true reward.
Jerome makes 18b an independent clause, for he translates it as if the word were written וּלזרע; the Syr. and Targ. also, as if אמתּו שׂכרו (his fidelity is his reward). But according to the text as it stands, עשׂה extends its regimen to both parts of the verse; to make is here equivalent to, to work out, to acquire, περιποιεῖσθαι, as Gen 31:1; Jer 17:1, etc. The labour of the godless has selfishness as its motive, and what he acquires by his labour is therefore "delusive gain," - it is no blessing, it profits him not (Pro 10:2), and it brings him no advantage (Pro 10:16). He, on the contrary, acquires truth, i.e., a truly profitable and enduring reward, who sows right-doing, or better: good-doing, by which we also, as the biblical moral in צדקה, think principally of well-doing, unselfish activity and self-sacrificing love. Hos 10:12 speaks of sowing which has only צדקה as the norm; and how צדקה is understood is seen from the parallel use of חסד [piety]. The "true reward" is just the harvest by which the sowing of the good seed of noble benevolent actions is rewarded. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Worketh - A work which will deceive his expectation. Soweth - That worketh it with constancy, and diligence. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Worketh a deceitful work - An unstable work; nothing is durable that he does, except his crimes. |
8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
16 The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.