Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.
This saying stands within Solomon's collection of wise sayings and is poetic in style. It gives practical rules for everyday life and for moral and religious duty toward family, neighbors, friends, and God. It presents Jehovah as creator and governor of the universe and disposer of human destinies, who rewards piety with good and punishes evil, so that calamity follows those who do wrong while benefit is returned to those who do right.
It teaches the value of sincerity. It calls for modesty, chastity, temperance, forbearance, gentleness, industry, and submission to correction, rather than love of praise and flattery and refusal of reproof. It warns against intemperance.
This saying stands within Solomon's collection of wise sayings and is poetic in style. It gives practical rules for everyday life and for moral and religious duty toward family, neighbors, friends, and God. It presents Jehovah as creator and governor of the universe and disposer of human destinies, who rewards piety with good and punishes evil, so that calamity follows those who do wrong while benefit is returned to those who do right.
It teaches the value of sincerity. It calls for modesty, chastity, temperance, forbearance, gentleness, industry, and submission to correction, rather than love of praise and flattery and refusal of reproof. It warns against intemperance.