Proverbs 2:21 {22}
Good News Translation
Righteous people--people of integrity--will live in this land of ours.

New Revised Standard Version
For the upright will abide in the land, and the innocent will remain in it;

Contemporary English Version
If you are honest and innocent, you will keep your land;

New American Bible
For the upright will dwell in the land, people of integrity will remain in it;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken away from it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken away from it.

Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.

Job 42:12 And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

Psalm 37:3,9,11,22,29 Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches. . . .

Psalm 84:11 For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory.

Psalm 112:4-6 To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is merciful, and compassionate and just. . . .

Context
The Benefits of Wisdom
20For they that are upright, shall dwell in the earth; and the simple shall continue in it. 21But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken away from it.22My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments.…
Cross References
Psalm 37:9
For evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the land.

Psalm 37:29
But the just shall inherit the land, and shall dwell therein for evermore.

Proverbs 10:30
The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom: the tongue of the perverse shall perish.

Proverbs 28:10
He that deceiveth the just in a wicked way, shall fall in his own destruction: and the upright shall possess his goods.

Proverbs 2:20
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