Proverbs Chapter 2 verse 21 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 2:21

For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.
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BBE Proverbs 2:21

For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.
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DARBY Proverbs 2:21

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it;
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KJV Proverbs 2:21

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
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WBT Proverbs 2:21


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WEB Proverbs 2:21

For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
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YLT Proverbs 2:21

For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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.