Parallel Verses New International Version The name of the righteous is used in blessings, but the name of the wicked will rot. King James Bible The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. Darby Bible Translation The memory of the righteous [man] shall be blessed; but the name of the wicked shall rot. World English Bible The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot. Young's Literal Translation The remembrance of the righteous is for a blessing, And the name of the wicked doth rot. Proverbs 10:7 Parallel Commentary Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThe memory of the just is blessed - Or, is a blessing. But the name of the wicked shall rot - This is another antithesis; but there are only two antithetic terms, for memory and name are synonymous - Lowth. The very name of the wicked is as offensive as putrid carrion. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge memory Mark 14:9 Truly I say to you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world... the name Job 18:17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. Job 27:23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place. Library The Two-Fold Aspect of the Divine Working'The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.'--PROVERBS x. 29. You observe that the words 'shall be,' in the last clause, are a supplement. They are quite unnecessary, and in fact they rather hinder the sense. They destroy the completeness of the antithesis between the two halves of the verse. If you leave them out, and suppose that the 'way of the Lord' is what is spoken of in both clauses, you get a far deeper and fuller meaning. 'The way … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture Sanctions of Moral Law, Natural and Governmental. How the Simple and the Crafty are to be Admonished. Letter xv (Circa A. D. 1129) to Alvisus, Abbot of Anchin Cross References 2 Chronicles 32:33 Hezekiah rested with his ancestors and was buried on the hill where the tombs of David's descendants are. All Judah and the people of Jerusalem honored him when he died. And Manasseh his son succeeded him as king. Job 18:17 The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land. Job 24:20 The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree. Psalm 9:5 You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever. Psalm 9:6 Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished. Psalm 34:16 but the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to blot out their name from the earth. Psalm 109:13 May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation. Jump to Previous Blessed Blessing Dust Evil-Doer Memory Perish Remembrance Righteous Rot Turned Upright WickedJump to Next Blessed Blessing Dust Evil-Doer Memory Perish Remembrance Righteous Rot Turned Upright WickedLinks Proverbs 10:7 NIVProverbs 10:7 NLT Proverbs 10:7 ESV Proverbs 10:7 NASB Proverbs 10:7 KJV Proverbs 10:7 Bible Apps Proverbs 10:7 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 10:7 Chinese Bible Proverbs 10:7 French Bible Proverbs 10:7 German Bible Proverbs 10:7 Commentaries THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica®. Bible Hub |