Proverbs 11:18
WEB
Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
BSB
The wicked man earns an empty wage, but he who sows righteousness reaps a true reward.
KJV
The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H7563
a — wrong, bad
Derivation: from 7561;
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV: condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
adj — wicked
רָשָׁע 263 adj. wicked, criminal
H6213
v — do, make
Derivation: a primitive root;
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
KJV: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, × certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, feast, (fight-) ing man, finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, hinder, hold (a feast), × indeed, be industrious, journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, × sacrifice, serve, set, shew, × sin, spend, × surely, take, × thoroughly, trim, × very, vex, be (warr-) ior, work(-man), yield, use.
vb — do
עָשָׂה 2622 vb. do, make
Qal 2524
I.
1. do (1560 t.)
2. deal with
3. oft. in phr. do kindness with
4. abs. act, act with effect
II.
1. make (670 t.)
2. produce, yield
3. prepare, esp. of dressing and cooking food
4. make offering
5. attend to, put in order
6. observe, celebrate, religious festival
7. acquire property of various kinds
8. appoint priests
9. bring about of י׳’s effecting a deliverance
10. use
11. spend, pass, days of life
Niph. 97
1. be done
2.
a. be made, of concr. things
b. be produced from vine
c. be prepared, of food
d. be offered
e. be observed, passover
f. be used
Pu. I was made
vb — press
[עָשָׂה] vb. Pi. press, squeeze
H6468
n-f — work
Derivation: feminine passive participle of 6466;
(abstractly) work
KJV: labour, reward, wages, work.
n.f — work
[פְּעֻלָּה] n.f. work, recompense (poet. and late)
H8267
n-m — untruth, sham
Derivation: from 8266;
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
KJV: without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.
n.m — deception
שֶׁ֫קֶר 113 n.m. deception, disappointment, falsehood
1. deception, what deceives, disappoints, and betrays one
2. deceit, fraud, wrong
3. injurious falsehood, in testimony
4. falsity, of false or self-deceived prophets
5. lie, falsehood, in gen.
H2232
v — sow, disseminate, plant, fructify
Derivation: a primitive root;
to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify
KJV: bear, conceive seed, set with sow(-er), yield.
vb — sow
זָרַע vb. sow, scatter seed
Qal
1. lit. sow
2. of shrub and tree producing, yielding seed
3. fig.
Niph. be sown, fructified
1. be sown
2. be fructified, made pregnant
Pu. of princes and judges under fig. of trees
Hiph.
1. produce seed
2. of a woman, = bear a child
H6666
n-f — rightness, rectitude, justice, virtue, prosperity
Derivation: from 6663;
rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
KJV: justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).
n.f — righteousness
צְדָקָה 157 n.f. righteousness
1. righteousness, in government
2. God's attribute as sovereign
3. righteousness, in a case or cause
4. righteousness = truthfulness
5. righteousness, as ethically right
6. righteousness as vindicated, justification, salvation, etc.
7. pl. righteous acts
H7938
n-m — wages
Derivation: from 7936;
wages
KJV: reward, sluices.
n.[m.] — hire
שֶׂ֫כֶר n.[m.] hire, wages
H571
n-f — stability, certainty, truth, trustworthiness
Derivation: contracted from 539;
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
KJV: assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure, true (-ly, -th), verity.
n.f — firmness
אֱמֶת n.f. firmness, faithfulness
1. reliability, sureness
2. stability, continuance
3. faithfulness, reliableness
4. truth
5. adv. in truth, truly
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Verse 18
Proverbs 11:18
Note, 1. Sinners put a most fatal cheat upon themselves: The wicked works a deceitful work, builds himself a house upon the sand, which will deceive him when the storm comes, promises himself that by his sin which he will never gain; nay, it is cutting his throat when it smiles upon him. Sin deceived me, and by it slew me. 2. Saints lay up the best securities for themselves: He that sows righteousness, that is good, and makes it his business to do good, with an eye to a future recompence, he shall have a sure reward; it is made as sure to him as eternal truth can make it. If the seedness fail not, the harvest shall not, Gal 6:8.
Cross-references: Gal 6:8