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Selected Verse: Proverbs 29:2 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Pr 29:2 |
Strong Concordance |
When the righteous [06662] are in authority [07235], the people [05971] rejoice [08055]: but when the wicked [07563] beareth rule [04910], the people [05971] mourn [0584]. |
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King James |
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
(Compare Pro 11:10; Pro 28:28).
in authority--(Compare Margin), increased in power. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The general ethical proverb is here followed by one that is political:
2 When the righteous increase, the people rejoice;
And when a godless man ruleth, the people mourn.
Regarding 'בּרבות צדּ (Aquila rightly, ἐν τῷ πληθῦναι δικαίους), vid., at Pro 28:28. If the righteous form the majority, or are in such numbers that they are the party that give the tone, that form the predominant power among the people (Fleischer, cum incrementa capiunt justi), then the condition of the people is a happy one, and their voice joyful (Pro 11:10); if, on the contrary, a godless man or (after Pro 28:1) godless men rule, the people are made to sigh (יאנח עם, with the Gaja, according to rule). "There is reason," as Hitzig remarks, "why עם should be placed first with, and then without, the article." In the first case it denotes the people as those among whom there is such an increase of the righteous; in the second case, the article is wanting, because it is not generally used in poetry; and, besides, its absence makes the second line consist of nine syllables, like the first. |
28 When the wicked [07563] rise [06965], men [0120] hide [05641] themselves: but when they perish [06], the righteous [06662] increase [07235].
10 When it goeth well [02898] with the righteous [06662], the city [07151] rejoiceth [05970]: and when the wicked [07563] perish [06], there is shouting [07440].
1 The wicked [07563] flee [05127] when no man pursueth [07291]: but the righteous [06662] are bold [0982] as a lion [03715].
10 When it goeth well [02898] with the righteous [06662], the city [07151] rejoiceth [05970]: and when the wicked [07563] perish [06], there is shouting [07440].
28 When the wicked [07563] rise [06965], men [0120] hide [05641] themselves: but when they perish [06], the righteous [06662] increase [07235].