Proverbs 2:22 {3:1}
Good News Translation
But God will snatch the wicked from the land and pull sinners out of it like plants from the ground.

New Revised Standard Version
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Contemporary English Version
if you do wrong and can never be trusted, you will be rooted out.

New American Bible
But the wicked will be cut off from the land, the faithless will be rooted out of it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments.

the wicked

Proverbs 5:22,23 He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived. . . .

Job 18:16-18 Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above. . . .

Job 21:30 Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.

Psalm 37:20,22,28,37,38 Because the wicked shall perish. And the enemies of the Lord, presently after they shall be honoured and exalted, shall come to nothing and vanish like smoke. . . .

Psalm 52:5 Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living.

Psalm 104:35 Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and the unjust, so that they be no more: O my soul, bless thou the Lord.

Psalm 145:20 The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he will destroy.

Isaiah 3:10,11 Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings. . . .

rooted

Deuteronomy 7:22 He will consume these nations in thy sight by little and little and by degrees. Thou wilt not be able to destroy them altogether: lest perhaps the beasts of the earth should increase upon thee.

Deuteronomy 28:64 The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone.

Context
The Benefits of Wisdom
21But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken away from it. 22My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:63
And as the Lord rejoiced upon you before doing good to you, and multiplying you: so he shall rejoice destroying and bringing you to nought, so that you shall be taken away from the land which thou shalt go in to possess.

Deuteronomy 29:28
And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land, as it is seen this day.

Psalm 37:28
For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 37:38
But the unjust shall be destroyed together: the remnants of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 52:5
Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living.

Proverbs 10:30
The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom: the tongue of the perverse shall perish.

Proverbs 11:3
Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.

Proverbs 2:21
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