Proverbs 11:4

4 Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.

Proverbs 11:4 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 11:4

Riches profit not in the day of wrath
When God takes away the soul, and summons to judgment, and brings to it; and as riches profited not Rome Pagan, in the day of the Lamb's wrath upon it; so neither will they profit Rome Papal, when it will come in remembrance before God, to give it the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath; see ( Revelation 6:15-17 ) ( 18:15-17 ) ; but righteousness delivereth from death;
from the curse of a corporeal death; from the power of a spiritual one; and from dying the second or an eternal one; (See Gill on Proverbs 10:2); the Targum is,

``from an evil death.''

Proverbs 11:4 In-Context

2 Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom.

3 The simplicity of the just shall guide them: and the deceitfulness of the wicked shall destroy them.

4 Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.

5 The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.

6 The justice of the righteous shall deliver them: and the unjust shall be caught in their own snares.