Proverbs 11:3-5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 The honesty of the upright guides them;
the faithless are ruined by their duplicity.
4 Wealth is useless on a day of wrath,[a](A)
but justice saves from death.
5 The justice of the honest makes their way straight,
but by their wickedness the wicked fall.[b](B)
Footnotes
- 11:4 Cf. note on 10:2. A day of wrath is an unforeseen disaster (even death). Only one’s relationship to God, which makes one righteous, is of any help on such a day.
- 11:5 In Hebrew as in English, “way” means the course of one’s life; similarly, “straight” and “crooked” are metaphors for morally straightforward and for bad, deviant, perverted.
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