Proverbs 14:14

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Proverbs 14:14

14 The faithless will be fully repaid for their ways, and the good rewarded for theirs.

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Proverbs 14:14 in Other Translations

KJV

14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

ESV

14 The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.

NLT

14 Backsliders get what they deserve; good people receive their reward.

MSG

14 A mean person gets paid back in meanness, a gracious person in grace.

CSB

14 The disloyal will get what their conduct deserves, and a good man, what his [deeds deserve.]

Proverbs 14:14 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 14:14

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways,
&c.] One that is a backslider at heart, whose heart departeth from the Lord; in whom there is an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; and indeed apostasy begins at the heart, and shows itself in the life and conversation: there may be a backsliding when the heart does not wickedly depart from God; but is through the infirmity of the flesh and the force of temptation; from which backslidings the Lord's people are recovered, and which are healed by his grace; but here such an one is meant who willingly and heartily backslides; and such shall have the reward of their hands and actions given them, or the full and due punishment of their sins; they shall have their bellyful of their own wicked ways and works, the just recompense of reward for them; and a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself;
shall eat the fruit of his own doings, shall be blessed in his deeds, and have peace and satisfaction therein; though not salvation by them, or for them: he shall be satisfied with the grace of God bestowed on him and wrought in him; and, from a feeling experience of the grace of God within him, shall be satisfied that he has in heaven a better and an enduring substance; or he shall be satisfied "from above himself" ^F13, from the grace that is in Christ, out of the fulness which is in him; and shall be filled with all the fulness of God he is capable of; and especially in the other world, when he shall awake in his likeness. The Targum is,

``a good man shall be satisfied with his fear;''

and so the Syriac version, with the fear of his soul; it may be rendered, as by the Vulgate Latin version, "a good man shall be above him" ^F14; that is, above the backslider; shall be better tilled, and be more happy than he.

FOOTNOTES:

F13 (wylem) "de super eo", Montanus; "de super semet", Schultens.
F14 "Et super cum erit vir bonus", V. L. De Dieu.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible