Zhēnyán 12:21

21 Yì rén bù zāo zāi haì è rén mǎn shòu huòhuàn .

Zhēnyán 12:21 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 12:21

There shall no evil happen to the just
The evil of sin: no iniquity, as the Targum; which, and the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, interpret of sin not being agreeable, convenient, suit able, and pleasing to a righteous man. Moreover, the Lord, by his Spirit and grace, weakens the power of sin in them; and, by his providence, prevents and removes occasion of sinning; and by his power preserves from it, from being overcome and carried away with it, at least finally and totally. Or the evil of punishment is here meant; no penal evil shall befall them; the punishment of their sin has been inflicted on Christ their surety, and therefore shall never be laid on them; and whatever afflictions may happen to them, which have the name and appearance of evil, these work together for their good, spiritual and eternal; so that, in reality, no evil thing, properly speaking, happens to them; see ( Psalms 91:10 ) . Or whatever does come to them comes not by chance unto them, but by the decree and will of God, and is overruled for good; but the wicked shall be filled with mischief;
or "with evil" ^F8, the evil of sin; with malice and wickedness, with all impiety and unrighteousness, with ignorance and error; with all kind of sins, both against the first and second table of the law, and so with all the consequences of sin: with the evil of punishment; with an evil conscience, with the terrors of it; with many distresses here, and with everlasting destruction hereafter. Some understand it of the mischief they devise to others, which they are full of and big with; and "though" they are, as Aben Ezra interprets the word, yet no evil shall happen to the righteous; the mischief contrived by them shall fall upon themselves.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 (er) "malo", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Michaelis.

Zhēnyán 12:21 In-Context

19 Kǒu tǔ zhēn yán , yǒngyuǎn jiān lì . shé shuōhuǎng huà , zhǐ cún piànshí .

20 Tú móu è shì de , xīn cún guǐzhà . quàn rén hémù de , biàn dé xǐlè .

21 Yì rén bù zāo zāi haì è rén mǎn shòu huòhuàn .

22 Shuōhuǎng yán de zuǐ, wéi Yēhéhuá suǒ zēngwù . xíngshì chéngshí de , wèi tā suǒ xǐyuè .

23 Tōngdá rén yǐncáng zhīshi . yúmeì rén de xīn , zhāng xiǎn yúmeì .