Proverbs Chapter 14 verse 19 Holy Bible
The evil bow down before the good; And the wicked, at the gates of the righteous.
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The knees of the evil are bent before the good; and sinners go down in the dust at the doors of the upright.
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The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous [man].
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The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
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The evil bow down before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
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The evil have bowed down before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - The evil bow before the good; and the wicked stand at the gates of the righteous (Proverbs 8:34). The final victory of good over evil is here set forth. However triumphant for a time and apparently prosperous the wicked may be, their success is not lasting; they shall in the end succumb to the righteous, even as the Canaanite kings crouched before Joshua's captains (Joshua 10:24), and, hurled from their high estate, they shall stand humbly at the good man's door, begging for bread to support their life (1 Samuel 2:36). The contrast here indicated is seen in our Lord's parable of Dives and Lazarus, when the beggar is comforted and the rich man is tormented, and when the latter urgently sues for the help of the once despised outcast to mitigate the agony which he is suffering (comp. Wisd. 5).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) The evil bow before the good.--(Comp. 1Samuel 2:36.) That this final retribution is certain is implied by the tense employed, though it may be long delayed till the "awakening" (Psalm 73:20) of God and man to judgment. (Comp. Wisdom Of Solomon 5:1, sqq.)
