Proverbs 14:32
New International Version
When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous seek refuge in God.

New Living Translation
The wicked are crushed by disaster, but the godly have a refuge when they die.

English Standard Version
The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.

Berean Standard Bible
The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

King James Bible
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

New King James Version
The wicked is banished in his wickedness, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.

New American Standard Bible
The wicked is thrust down by his own wrongdoing, But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.

NASB 1995
The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing, But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.

NASB 1977
The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing, But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.

Legacy Standard Bible
The wicked is thrust down by his own evil, But the righteous takes refuge even in his death.

Amplified Bible
The wicked is overthrown through his wrongdoing, But the righteous has hope and confidence and a refuge [with God] even in death.

Christian Standard Bible
The wicked one is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The wicked one is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.

American Standard Version
The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The evil one is overthrown by his evil, and he that trusts that he has no sin is righteous.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness: but he who is secure in his own holiness is just.

Contemporary English Version
In times of trouble the wicked are destroyed, but even at death the innocent have faith.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

English Revised Version
The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but even in his death a righteous person has a refuge.

Good News Translation
Wicked people bring about their own downfall by their evil deeds, but good people are protected by their integrity.

International Standard Version
The wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but the righteous person has a place of safety in death.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The wicked is thrust down in his misfortune; But the righteous, even when he is brought to death, hath hope.

Literal Standard Version
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness, | And the righteous [is] trustful in his death.

Majority Standard Bible
The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

New American Bible
The wicked are overthrown by their wickedness, but the just find a refuge in their integrity.

NET Bible
The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, but the righteous have refuge even in the threat of death.

New Revised Standard Version
The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing, but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.

New Heart English Bible
The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but the righteous has a refuge in his death.

Webster's Bible Translation
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

World English Bible
The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Young's Literal Translation
In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death is the righteous.

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Context
The Wise Woman
31Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him. 32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death. 33Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning; even among fools she is known.…

Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:9
Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

2 Corinthians 5:8
We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

2 Timothy 4:18
And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Genesis 49:18
I await Your salvation, O LORD.

Psalm 16:11
You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.

Psalm 17:15
As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.

Psalm 37:37
Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.


Treasury of Scripture

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has hope in his death.

driven

Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Job 27:20-22
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night…

Psalm 58:9
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

the righteous

Genesis 49:18
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

Job 13:15
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

Job 19:25-27
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: …

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(32) The wicked is driven away in his wickedness.--Or, is overthrown in his misfortune, i.e., when it comes upon him (comp. Psalm 34:21), for he has none to aid or comfort him.

But the righteous hath hope in his death.--Comp. Job's confidence (Job 13:15 and Psalm 23:4). The gravest troubles do not terrify him.

Verse 32. - The wicked is driven away in his wickedness. So the Greek and Latin Versions. In his very act of sin, flagrante delicto, the wicked is defeated, driven from hope and life; as the Revised Version renders, "The wicked is thrust down in his evil doing;" i.e. there is some element of weakness in an evil deed which occasions its discovery and punishment, sooner or later. Thus "murder will out," we say. But the contrast is better emphasized by taking ra in its other sense of "calamity," "misfortune," thus: "In his calamity the wicked is cast down" (Proverbs 24:16). When misfortune comes upon him, he has no defence, no hope; he collapses utterly; all his friends forsake him; there is none to comfort or uphold him (comp. Matthew 7:26, 27). But the righteous hath hope in his death (comp. Ecclus. 1:13). Primarily, the clause means that even in the greatest danger the good man loses not his trust in God. It is like Job's word (if our reading is correct, Job 13:15), "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him;" and the psalmist, "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me" (Psalm 23:4). Thus the Christian martyrs went joyfully to the stake, and gentle women and little children smiled on the sword which sent them home. It is natural to see in this clause a belief in a future life, and a state of rewards and punishments; and some commentators, holding that this doctrine was net known in pre-exilian days, have taken occasion from its plain enunciation in this paragraph to affix a very late date to our book. There are two answers to be made to this assertion. First, it is capable of proof that the belief in the immortality of the soul, with its consequences in another state, was held, however vaguely, by the Jews long before Solomon's time (see note, Proverbs 12:28); secondly, the present passage is by some read differently, whence is obtained another rendering, which removes from it all trace of the doctrine in question. Thus Ewald and others would read the clause in this way: "The righteous hath hope, or taketh refuge, from his own deeds." There can be no reasonable doubt that the usual reading and translation are correct; but the above considerations show that no argument as to the date of the Proverbs can be safely founded on this verse. The LXX. has a different reading for במותו, "in his death," and translates, "But he who trusteth in his own holiness is just" - which looks like a travesty of Scripture, but probably refers to the consciousness of having a heart right with God and obedient to the requirements of the Divine Law.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The wicked [man]
רָשָׁ֑ע (rā·šā‘)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7563: Wrong, an, bad person

is thrown down
יִדָּחֶ֣ה (yid·dā·ḥeh)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1760: To push, thrust

by his own sin,
בְּֽ֭רָעָתוֹ (bə·rā·‘ā·ṯōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

but the righteous [man]
צַדִּֽיק׃ (ṣad·dîq)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6662: Just, righteous

has a refuge
וְחֹסֶ֖ה (wə·ḥō·seh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 2620: To flee for, protection, to confide in

when he dies.
בְמוֹת֣וֹ (ḇə·mō·w·ṯōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin


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