Proverbs 11:31
New International Version
If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!

New Living Translation
If the righteous are rewarded here on earth, what will happen to wicked sinners?

English Standard Version
If the righteous is repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

Berean Standard Bible
If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!

King James Bible
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

New King James Version
If the righteous will be recompensed on the earth, How much more the ungodly and the sinner.

New American Standard Bible
If the righteous will be repaid on the earth, How much more the wicked and the sinner!

NASB 1995
If the righteous will be rewarded in the earth, How much more the wicked and the sinner!

NASB 1977
If the righteous will be rewarded in the earth, How much more the wicked and the sinner!

Legacy Standard Bible
If the righteous will be repaid in the earth, How much more the wicked and the sinner!

Amplified Bible
If the righteous will be rewarded on the earth [with godly blessings], How much more [will] the wicked and the sinner [be repaid with punishment]!

Christian Standard Bible
If the righteous will be repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and sinful.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If the righteous will be repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and sinful.

American Standard Version
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: How much more the wicked and the sinner!

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
If the righteous lives with hardship, where will the wicked and the sinner be found?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Contemporary English Version
If good people are rewarded here on this earth, all who are cruel and mean will surely be punished.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner.

English Revised Version
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: how much more the wicked and the sinner!

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If the righteous person is rewarded on earth, how much more the wicked person and the sinner!

Good News Translation
Those who are good are rewarded here on earth, so you can be sure that wicked and sinful people will be punished.

International Standard Version
If the righteous receive what they are due here on earth, how much more will the wicked and the sinner.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Behold, the righteous shall be requited in the earth; How much more the wicked and the sinner!

Literal Standard Version
Behold, the righteous is repaid in the earth, | Surely also the wicked and the sinner!

Majority Standard Bible
If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!

New American Bible
If the just are recompensed on the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

NET Bible
If the righteous are recompensed on earth, how much more the wicked sinner!

New Revised Standard Version
If the righteous are repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

New Heart English Bible
If the righteous is delivered with difficulty, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed upon the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

World English Bible
Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, the righteous in the earth is recompensed, Surely also the wicked and the sinner!

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Context
Dishonest Scales
30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise. 31If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!

Cross References
1 Peter 4:18
And, "If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?"

2 Samuel 22:21
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

2 Samuel 22:25
So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight.

Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.

Proverbs 13:21
Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.

Jeremiah 25:29
For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.'


Treasury of Scripture

Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

2 Samuel 7:14,15
I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: …

2 Samuel 12:9-12
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon…

1 Kings 13:24
And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.

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(31) Behold the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth.--That is, even he shall be punished for his misdeeds, as were Jacob, Moses, David; how much more shall "the wicked and the sinner." The LXX. translates freely, "If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" a rendering adopted in 1Peter 4:18.

Verse 31. - The righteous shall be recompensed in the earth. Them are two ways of understanding this verse. The word rendered "recompensed," שַׁלַַ(shalam), is a vox media, and can be taken either in a good or bad sense. So the meaning will be, "The righteous meets with his reward upon earth, much more the sinner," the "reward" of the latter being, of course, punishment. But the versions lead to another interpretation, by which "recompensed" is rendered "chastised;" and the meaning is - if even the righteous shall be punished for their trespasses, as Moses, David, etc., how much more the wicked! The Septuagint, quoted exactly by St. Peter (1 Peter 4:18) has, "If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?"



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If
הֵ֣ן (hên)
Interjection
Strong's 2005: Lo! behold!

the righteous
צַ֭דִּיק (ṣad·dîq)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6662: Just, righteous

receive their due
יְשֻׁלָּ֑ם (yə·šul·lām)
Verb - Pual - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7999: To be safe, to be, completed, to be friendly, to reciprocate

on earth,
בָּאָ֣רֶץ (bā·’ā·reṣ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

how much more
אַ֝֗ף (’ap̄)
Conjunction
Strong's 637: Meaning accession, yea, adversatively though

the ungodly
רָשָׁ֥ע (rā·šā‘)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7563: Wrong, an, bad person

and the sinner!
וְחוֹטֵֽא׃ (wə·ḥō·w·ṭê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 2398: To miss, to sin, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn


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