“Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 11 contains 31 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.