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Proverbs 21:15

Proverbs 21:15

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible · Matthew Henry (1662–1714) · Public Domain

Note, 1. It is a pleasure and satisfaction to good men both to see

justice administered by the government they live under, right taking

place and iniquity suppressed, and also to practise it themselves,

according as their sphere is. They not only do justice, but do it with

pleasure, not only for fear of shame, but for love of virtue. 2. It is

a terror to wicked men to see the laws put in execution against vice

and profaneness. It is destruction to them; as it is also a vexation to

them to be forced, either for the support of their credit or for fear

of punishment, to do judgment themselves. Or, if we take it as we read

it, the meaning is, There is true pleasure in the practice of religion,

but certain destruction at the end of all vicious courses.

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