Proverbs 2:21
New International Version
For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

New Living Translation
For only the godly will live in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it.

English Standard Version
For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,

Berean Standard Bible
For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

King James Bible
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

New King James Version
For the upright will dwell in the land, And the blameless will remain in it;

New American Standard Bible
For the upright will live in the land, And the blameless will remain in it;

NASB 1995
For the upright will live in the land And the blameless will remain in it;

NASB 1977
For the upright will live in the land, And the blameless will remain in it;

Legacy Standard Bible
For the upright will dwell in the land And the blameless will remain in it;

Amplified Bible
For the upright [those who are in right standing with God] will live in the land And those [of integrity] who are blameless [in God’s sight] will remain in it;

Christian Standard Bible
For the upright will inhabit the land, and those of integrity will remain in it;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the upright will inhabit the land, and those of integrity will remain in it;

American Standard Version
For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because the upright dwell in the land and those without blemish are spared in it

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it.

Contemporary English Version
If you are honest and innocent, you will keep your land;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.

English Revised Version
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Decent people will live in the land. People of integrity will remain in it.

Good News Translation
Righteous people--people of integrity--will live in this land of ours.

International Standard Version
For the upright will live in the land, and people of integrity will remain in it.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the whole-hearted shall remain in it.

Literal Standard Version
For the upright inhabit the earth, | And the perfect are left in it,

Majority Standard Bible
For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

New American Bible
For the upright will dwell in the land, people of integrity will remain in it;

NET Bible
For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,

New Revised Standard Version
For the upright will abide in the land, and the innocent will remain in it;

New Heart English Bible
For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

World English Bible
For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

Young's Literal Translation
For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,

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Context
The Benefits of Wisdom
20So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous. 21For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it; 22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.…

Cross References
Psalm 37:9
For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

Psalm 37:29
The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.

Proverbs 10:30
The righteous will never be shaken, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.

Proverbs 28:10
He who leads the upright along the path of evil will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.


Treasury of Scripture

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 42:12
So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

Psalm 37:3,9,11,22,29
Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed…

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(21) The upright shall dwell in the land--i.e., of Canaan, according to the old promise made to Abraham, renewed in the fifth commandment, and constantly repeated in the prophets.

Verse 21. - For the upright shall dwell in the land. Much the same language is met with in Psalm 37:29, "The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever." It is the secure and peaceful dwelling in the land which is intended (cf. Proverbs 10:30). To dwell in the land was always put forward as the reward of obedience to God's commandments (see Exodus 20:12; Leviticus 25:18; Leviticus 26:5), and the phrase conveyed to the Hebrew mind the idea of one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all temporal blessings. The love of country was a predominant characteristic of the race. Elster, quoted by Zockler, remarks, "The Israelite was beyond the power of natural feeling, which makes home dear to every one, more closely bound to the ancestral soil by the whole form of the theocracy; torn kern it, he was in the inmost roots of life strained and broken. Especially from psalms belonging to the period of the exile this patriotic feeling is breathed out in the fullest glow and intensity." The land (אָרֶצ arets) was the promised land, the land of Canaan. The word is not used here in the wider sense in which it occurs in Matthew 5:5, "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." And the perfect shall remain in it; i.e. they shall not, as Rabbi Levi remarks, be driven thence nor caused to migrate. The perfect (תְמִימִים th'mimim), the holy (LXX., ὅσιοι), the spotless (immaeulati, Targum), those without a staid (qui sine labe, Syriae), the guileless (simplices, Vulgate). Shall remain; יִוָּתְרוּ (yivrath'ru), niph. future of יָתַר (yathar), properly "to be redundant," and in the niph. form, "to be left," or "to remain." LXX., ὑπολειφθήσαντι "shall remain;" permanebunt, Vulgate.

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Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

the upright
יְשָׁרִ֥ים (yə·šā·rîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 3477: Straight, right

will inhabit
יִשְׁכְּנוּ‪‬‪‬ (yiš·kə·nū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7931: To settle down, abide, dwell

the land,
אָ֑רֶץ (’ā·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

and the blameless
וּ֝תְמִימִ֗ים (ū·ṯə·mî·mîm)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 8549: Entire, integrity, truth

will remain in it;
יִוָּ֥תְרוּ (yiw·wā·ṯə·rū)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3498: To jut over, exceed, to excel, to remain, be left, to leave, cause to abound, preserve


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