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Selected Verse: Proverbs 2:22 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 2:22 |
King James |
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. |
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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] |
transgressors--or impious rebels (compare Jer 9:2).
rooted out--utterly destroyed, as trees plucked up by the roots. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Transgressors - בוגדים bogedim. The garment men, the hypocrites; those who act borrowed characters, who go under a eloak; dissemblers. All such shall be rooted out of the land; they shall not be blessed with posterity. In general it is so: and were it not so, one evil offspring succeeding another, adding their own to their predecessors' vices, the earth would become so exceedingly corrupt that a second flood, or a fire, would be necessary to purge it. |
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.