Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 10:30
The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
30. the earth ] Comp. Mat 5:5; or, the land (sc. of Canaan), as R.V. Comp. Pro 21:21-22; Exo 20:12. The law holds good, though its sphere of action may vary.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The wicked shall rot inhabit – The other and higher side of the same law of the divine government appears in Mat 5:5.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 30. The righteous shall never be removed] Because he is built on the eternal foundation. See on Pr 10:25.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The righteous shall never be removed; they shall live long and happily here, when this is most expedient for them, and eternally in heaven.
The wicked shall not inhabit the earth; they shall not have so much as a long and quite abode upon earth, unless where this is a curse and mischief to them, and much less shall they have any possession in heaven.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
30. (Compare Pro 12:3;Psa 37:9-11; Psa 102:28).
earthor, “land ofpromise.”
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The righteous shall never be removed,…. They may be removed from place to place in this world, through the persecutions of their enemies, or through one providence or another, as they often are; they may be removed from a state of outward prosperity to a state of adversity, as Job was; they may be removed from spiritual and comfortable frames of soul to carnal or uncomfortable ones; for good frames are very precarious and uncertain things; and they will be removed out of this world into another; here they have no continuing city: but they shall never be removed from the love of God, nothing can separate them from that; they are set as a seal on his heart, and are engraven on the palms of his hands, and there is no removing them from thence; they may be waiver about their interest in the love of God; they may be without the manifestations and discoveries of it to their souls; they may be under the hidings of God’s face; they may be at a distance from his house and ordinances, or may not enjoy the presence of God in them for a time; yet not separated from his affections; they shall never be removed out of the hands of Christ, into which they are put for security, and out of which none can pluck them, men or devils; how should they, since they are in those hands that made the heavens and the earth, support all in being, and hold the reins of government? Was it possible they could be removed from hence, it would impeach the wisdom of God, who has put them there; argue weakness in Christ, and suppose danger to them. Nor can they be removed out of the family of God; sons of God abide in his house for ever; they are no more foreigners and strangers; once children, no more servants; they may be corrected and chastised, yet be children; they may judge themselves unworthy of the relation, and be ready to conclude that their spots are not the spots of God’s children, and fear they are none of them, and yet the relation continues: nor will they ever be removed from their state of justification, by which they are denominated righteous, into a state of condemnation; for full satisfaction is given to law and justice for them; their justification is complete, it is from all sin; the righteousness by which they are justified is everlasting, and even their faith which receives it shall never fail; to which may be added, that they are secured from wrath to come, and entitled to eternal life. In a word, they are on the sure foundation of electing grace; they are in the immovable covenant of grace; they are on the Rock of ages, Christ Jesus; all the divine Persons and perfections are on their side; they are kept by the power of God, through faith, unto salvation; see
Ps 55:22;
but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth; but a very little while, as Gersom observes; and the time of their abode on earth is so short, as scarce to be called an inhabitation of it. Moreover, they shall not inhabit the earth the righteous will, even the new earth, which none but righteous persons shall inhabit, 2Pe 3:13; see
Ps 37:9.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
30 The righteous is never moved;
But the godless abide not in the land.
Love of home is an impulse and emotion natural to man; but to no people was fatherland so greatly delighted in, to none was exile and banishment from fatherland so dreadful a thought, as it was to the people of Israel. Expatriation is the worst of all evils with which the prophets threatened individuals and the people, Amo 7:17, cf. Isa 22:17.; and the history of Israel in their exile, which was a punishment of their national apostasy, confirms this proverb and explains its form; cf. Pro 2:21., Psa 37:29. is, like Pro 9:13, the emphatic No of the more elevated style; , the opposite of , Pro 12:3; and signifies to dwell, both inchoative: to come to dwell, and consecutive: to continue to dwell ( e.g., Isa 57:15, of God who inhabiteth eternity). In general, the proverb means that the righteous fearlessly maintains the position he takes; while, on the contrary, all they who have no hold on God lose also their outward position. But often enough this saying is fulfilled in this, that they, in order that they may escape disgrace, became wanderers and fugitives, and are compelled to conceal themselves among strangers.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
CRITICAL NOTES.
Pro. 10:31. Cut out, rooted out.
MAIN HOMILETICS OF Pro. 10:30
THE EARTH THE POSSESSION OF THE RIGHTEOUS
I. From their relation to God it is theirs now. The estate of an English nobleman is the portion of all his family to a certain extent. They all live upon it, and partake of its productions. But the eldest son has a special inheritance in itit is the perpetual possession of the heir of the house, and it is therefore his in a sense in which it is not the property of his brothers and sisters. The earth is the Lords, and the fulness thereof (Psa. 24:1), and it is therefore the property of His childrenof those who are His sons and heirs (Rom. 8:17). All men enjoy to some extent the blessings of the earth, but it belongs only to them whom Paul addresses when he says, All things are yours, whether. the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come (1Co. 3:21-22).
II. From their relation to God it shall be theirs in the future. The regenerated earth is to be the eternal abode of the righteous. The glorified body of the redeemed man will have enough of his present body to enable us to identify each other. Although we have not now the body that shall be (1Co. 15:37), there will be such a relationship between the present and the future as shall make them the same individual man. So, although the earth is to be a new earth (2Pe. 3:13), there will be that about it which will enable the regenerated man to recognise his old home. And if in the new earth there is to dwell righteousness, it is because it is to be the abode of righteous beings. On this subject see also Homiletics on Chap. Pro. 2:21-22.
OUTLINES AND SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS
Pro. 10:30. Love of home is an impulse and emotion natural to, man; but to no people was fatherland so greatly delighted in, to none was exile and banishment from fatherland so dreadful a thought, as it was to the people of Israel. Expatriation is the worst of all evils with which the prophets threatened individuals and the people; and the history of Israel in their exile, which was a punishment of their national apostasy, confirms this proverb, and explains its form. In general, the proverb means that the righteous fearlessly maintains the position he takes; while, on the contrary, all they who have no hold on God lose also their outward position. But often enough this saying is fulfilled in this, that they, in order that they may escape disgrace, become wanderers and fugitives, and are compelled to conceal themselves among strangers.Delitzsch.
The desire of the righteous is not to stay upon earth, neither is that the reward which God hath appointed for them. They know a better place to go unto, and where better things than the earth can afford are provided for them. Hugo de Sancto Victore saith, therefore, making three sorts of men, He is very delicate whose own country is delicious unto him; he is valiant to whom every country is his own; he is perfect to whom the world is a banishment. The first hath fastened his love upon the world, the second hath scattered his love in the world, the last hath extinguished his love from the world. And this is the righteous man of whom it is here said that he shall never be removed, because he shall never be taken hence with an unwilling and reluctant mind. He having never set his affection upon the world, can never be removed from it. When he goeth hence, he goeth cheerfully and gladly; it is not a remove of him, but a pleasant passage to him.Jermin.
Moved, not removed, but shaken: shall not be seriously disturbed.Miller.
See also comments on chap. Pro. 2:21-22.
(For Homiletics on Pro. 10:31, see on Pro. 10:13-14; Pro. 10:20-21.)
OUTLINES AND SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS
The figure here is of a sprout or seedling which has the capacity to grow for ever. Wisdom is such a tree. It grows from the mouth of the good man, and will grow for ever; that is, the good man will incessantly spread abroad wisdom. God, who is invisible, spreads abroad wisdom only through the creature. But the ungodly tongue, literally the tongue of upturnings, overturning everything, and being in this world the great instrument for leading others astray, will be put in a condition to be foiled of such an influence: as the inspired sentence expresses it, will be cut out.Miller.
As a tree full of life and sap brings forth its fruit, so in Isa. 57:19, the cognate word is translated the fruit of the lips. The froward tongue is like a tree that brings forth evil and not good fruit. It shall be cut down. What is meant is, that the abuse of Gods gift of speech will lead ultimately to its forfeiture. There shall, at last, be the silence of shame and confusion.Plumptre.
Fuente: The Preacher’s Complete Homiletical Commentary Edited by Joseph S. Exell
(30) The righteous shall never be removed.See above on Pro. 2:21, and Psa. 37:29.
But the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.Rather, The godless abide not in the land. They often have to become vagabonds, like Cain, for their crimes. This, too, was the great punishment threatened by Moses and all the prophets, which at last fell upon the Jews, and is still in force.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
30. Removed Rather, moved from the earth, or land, namely, Palestine. But under this proverb lies a more general truth. Compare Pro 2:21-22; Psa 37:22; Psa 125:1; Mat 5:5.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
v. 30. The righteous shall never be removed,
Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann
Pro 10:30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
Ver. 30. The righteous shall never be removed. ] Or, They shall not be removed for ever, though for a while they may seem to be so.
But the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
removed = moved, or shaken.
earth: or land [of promise].
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
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Pro 10:30
“The righteous shall never be removed; But the wicked shall not dwell in the land.”
The truth here is eternal in its scope. History affords many examples of the oppression of the righteous and the establishment of wicked populations in every land; but in the destiny of our sin-cursed earth, God has scheduled another chapter. “We look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness” (2Pe 3:13).
Pro 10:30. And again the same lesson is emphasized. Never be removed is said of the righteous, but not dwell of the wicked. For the security of the godly see Psa 125:1-2.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
never: Pro 10:25, Psa 16:8, Psa 37:22, Psa 37:28, Psa 37:29, Psa 112:6, Psa 125:1, Rom 8:35-39, 2Pe 1:10, 2Pe 1:11
the wicked: Psa 37:9, Psa 37:10, Psa 37:22, Psa 52:5, Eze 33:24-26, Mic 2:9, Mic 2:10, Mat 21:41
Reciprocal: Psa 62:6 – I shall
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
10:30 The righteous shall {n} never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
(n) They enjoy in this life by faith and hope, their everlasting life.
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes
The righteous person will never be permanently or ultimately shaken, though he or she may experience hardships. However, the wicked will not experience God’s blessing in the end. Dwelling in the land of promise was the wandering Israelite’s hope of eventual divine blessing. The alternative was exile from the land.