Proverbs 2 · Verse 22

Proverbs 2:22

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Proverbs 2:22, King James Version

Proverbs 2:22 in other translations

BSBbut the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
WEBBut the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
ASVBut the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
YLTAnd the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!
DARBYbut the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it.
BBEBut sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.
WebsterBut the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

What does Proverbs 2:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 2:21-22

21-22. (Compare Psa 37:3, 9, 22, 27).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 Transgressors - בוגדים bogedim. The garment men, the hypocrites; those who act borrowed characters, who go under a eloak; dissemblers. All such shall be rooted out of the land; they shall not be blessed with posterity. In general it is so: and were it not so, one evil offspring succeeding another, adding their own to their predecessors' vices, the earth would become so exceedingly corrupt that a second flood, or a fire, would be necessary to purge it.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 2:10-22

If we are truly wise, we shall be careful to avoid all evil company and evil practices. When wisdom has dominion over us, then it not only fills the head, but enters into the heart, and will preserve, both against corruptions within and temptations without. The ways of sin are ways of darkness, uncomfortable and unsafe: what fools are those who leave the plain, pleasant, lightsome paths of uprightness, to walk in…

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Proverbs 2:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וּ֭רְשָׁעִיםU.re.sha.'imand wicked [people]H7563
מֵאֶ֣רֶץme.'E.retzfrom [the] landH776
יִכָּרֵ֑תוּyi.ka.Re.tuthey will be cut offH3772
וּ֝בוֹגְדִ֗יםu.Vog.Dimand treacherous [people]H898
יִסְּח֥וּyi.se.Chuthey will be torn awayH5255
מִמֶּֽנָּה\׃\ \פmi.Me.nahfrom itH4480

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 2:22

  • Psalms 52:5

    God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

  • Deuteronomy 7:22

    And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

  • Isaiah 3:10-11

    Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

  • Psalms 37:28

    For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

  • Proverbs 10:30

    The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

  • Psalms 145:20

    The Lord preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

  • Deuteronomy 28:63-64

    And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

  • Job 18:16-18

    His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • Proverbs 5:22-23

    His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

  • Job 21:30

    That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

  • Psalms 37:37-38

    Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

  • Psalms 104:35

    Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the Lord, O my soul. Praise ye the Lord.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the wicked.
5:22,23; Job 18:16-18; 21:30; Ps 37:20,22,28,37,38; 52:5; 104:35
Ps 145:20; Isa 3:10,11
rooted. or, plucked up.
De 7:22; *marg:
De 28:64

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Context

  • Proverbs 2:21

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

  • Proverbs 2:22

    But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

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Proverbs 2:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Mas los impíos serán cortados de la tierra, y los prevaricadores serán de ella desarraigados.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		mais les méchants seront retranchés du pays, et les perfides en seront arrachés.
German
Elberfelder 1871		aber die Gesetzlosen werden aus dem Lande ausgerottet, und die Treulosen daraus weggerissen werden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		impii vero de terra perdentur, et qui inique agunt auferentur ex ea.