Proverbs 11:11

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

By the blessing {H1293} of the upright {H3477} the city {H7176} is exalted {H7311}: but it is overthrown {H2040} by the mouth {H6310} of the wicked {H7563}.

By the blessing of the upright, a city is raised up; but the words of the wicked tear it down.

By the blessing of the upright a city is built up, but by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted; But it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Proverbs 14:34 (8 votes)

    ¶ Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin [is] a reproach to any people.

  • Proverbs 29:8 (6 votes)

    ¶ Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise [men] turn away wrath.

  • James 3:6 (4 votes)

    And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

  • Job 22:30 (3 votes)

    He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:15 (3 votes)

    Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

  • 2 Chronicles 32:20 (3 votes)

    And for this [cause] Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.

  • 2 Chronicles 32:22 (3 votes)

    Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all [other], and guided them on every side.