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Proverbs 24:22

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24:22for suddenly their destruction will overtake them,38

and who knows the ruinous judgment both the Lord and the king can bring?39

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Footnotes

  1. 38 Heb “will rise” (so ).
  2. 39 Heb “the ruin of the two of them.” Judgment is sent on the rebels both by God and the king. The term פִּיד (pid, “ruin; disaster”) is a metonymy of effect, the cause being the sentence of judgment (= “ruinous judgment” in the translation; cf. “punishment”). The word “two of them” is a subjective genitive—they two bring the disaster on the rebels. The referents (the Lord and the king) have been specified in the translation for clarity. The reward for living in peace under God in this world is that those who do will escape the calamities that will fall on the rebellious. Verse 21a is used in 1 Peter 2:17, and v. 22 is used in Romans 13:1–7 (v. 4). This is the thirtieth and last of this collection.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

for disaster will arise suddenly from them,

and who knows the ruin that will come from them both?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

for those two will send sudden destruction on them,

and who knows what calamities they can bring?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

for destruction will come suddenly from them;

who knows what distress these two can bring?

NLTNew Living Translation

for disaster will hit them suddenly.

Who knows what punishment will come

from the Lord and the king?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For suddenly their disaster will come,

and the ruin of both of them, who knows?

KJV 1900King James Version

For their calamity shall rise suddenly;

And who knoweth the ruin of them both?