Proverbs 11:31

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: How much more the wicked and the sinner!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֵ֣ן צַ֭דִּיק בָּאָ֣רֶץ יְשֻׁלָּ֑ם אַ֝֗ף כִּֽי־רָשָׁ֥ע וְחוֹטֵֽא׃

Transliteration

Hēn ṣaddîq bāʾāreṣ yəšullām ʾap kî-rāšāʿ wəḥôṭēʾ.

Grammar Details

• *Hēn*: interjection - behold
• *ṣaddîq*: masculine singular adjective/noun - righteous one
• *bāʾāreṣ*: preposition + definite article + feminine singular noun - in the earth/land
• *yəšullām*: verb Pual imperfect 3rd masculine singular - is repaid/rewarded
• *ʾap*: conjunction/particle - indeed/surely/how much more
• *kî-rāšāʿ*: conjunction + masculine singular adjective/noun - that wicked one
• *wəḥôṭēʾ*: conjunction + verb Qal participle masculine singular - and sinner

Word Meanings

• *Hēn*: behold/see/if
• *ṣaddîq*: righteous one/just one
• *ʾāreṣ*: earth/land/ground
• *yəšullām*: is repaid/rewarded/recompensed
• *ʾap*: indeed/surely/also/how much more
• *rāšāʿ*: wicked one/criminal/guilty one
• *ḥôṭēʾ*: sinner/offender

Referenced Verses

• Jer 25:29 : 29 For, lo, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah of hosts.
• 1 Cor 11:30-32 : 30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. 31 But if we discerned ourselves, we should not {G302} be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
• 1 Pet 4:17-18 : 17 For the time [is come] for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if [it begin] first at us, what [shall be] the end of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?
• 2 Sam 7:14-15 : 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; 15 but my lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
• 2 Sam 12:9-9 : 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do that which is evil in his sight? thou hast smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. 11 Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house; and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
• 1 Kgs 13:24 : 24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his body was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it; the lion also stood by the body.
• Prov 13:21 : 21 Evil pursueth sinners; But the righteous shall be recompensed with good.