Proverbs 10:29

The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
way	דֶּ֣רֶךְ De.rekh	H1870	a road (as trodden) · noun, common both genders singular construct
LORD	יְהוָ֑ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
strength	מָע֣וֹז ma.'oz	H4581	a fortified place · noun, common masculine singular absolute
upright	לַ֭תֹּם La.tom	H8537	completeness · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
destruction	וּ֝מְחִתָּ֗ה u.me.chi.Tah	H4288	properly · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular absolute
workers	לְפֹ֣עֲלֵי le.Fo.'a.lei	H6466	to do or make (systematically and habitually) · preposition + verb, qal active participle, masculine plural construct
iniquity	אָֽוֶן 'A.ven	H205	strictly nothingness · noun, common masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Proverbs 21:15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Romans 2:8-9 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Psalms 36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
Psalms 37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume awa…
Psalms 84:7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
Psalms 92:7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:29-30

These two verses are to the same purport with those next before, intimating the happiness of the godly and the misery of the wicked; it is necessary that this be inculcated upon us, so loth are we to believe and consider it. 1. Strength and stability are entailed upon integrity: The way of the Lord (the providence of God, the way in which he walks towards us) is strength to the upright, confirms him in his uprightness. All God's dealings with him, merciful and afflictive, serve to quicken him to his duty and animate him against his discouragements. Or the way of the Lord (the way of godliness, in which he appoints us to walk) is strength to the upright; the closer we keep to that way, the mo…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 10:29

The way, &c.--that is, God's providence sustains the righteous and overthrows the wicked (Hos 14:9).

John Gill on Proverbs 10:29

The way of the Lord is strength to the upright,.... Who are upright in heart and life; who have the uprightness or righteousness of Christ imputed to them, and right spirits renewed in them; in consequence of which they walk uprightly, Proverbs 10:9. To these "the way of the Lord is strength"; both the way which he himself takes, and the way which he prescribes and directs his people to walk in: the way in which he walks in providence towards them is the strength of them; he is their shade on their right hand; he shows himself strong on their behalf; he is their fortress and strong tower, as the God of providence, even a wall of fire round about them: and the way he takes in the discoveries…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 10:29

21 The lips of the righteous edify many; But fools die through want of understanding.

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The Church Fathers

The strength of the simple is the way of the Lord, etc. He says, If you cannot understand the hidden meanings of Scripture, do not despair of salvation, but walk in the way of the Lord, do the good things you know, and you will be counted among the strong. But those who scorn doing the right things they know ought to rightly tremble, because certain evils remain for them to suffer.
— Bede, Commentary on Proverbs

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Poetry — Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon,…
Blessing · SPIRITUAL, FROM GOD — SPIRITUAL, FROM GOD
Uprightness · They who walk in: Find strengths in God’s way — They who walk in: Find strengths in God’s way

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:29-30

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 10:29

John Gill on Proverbs 10:29

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 10:29

Tyndale Open Study Notes

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:29-30

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 10:29

John Gill on Proverbs 10:29

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 10:29

Tyndale Open Study Notes

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Rashi on Proverbs 10:29