OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 12:21

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21

No mischief shall happen to the righteous, but the wicked shall be filled with evil.

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Verse 21. Sad. Even if he fall into sin, he will not lose all hope. Calmet.—The accidents accompanying this life will not overwhelm him. Saint John Chrysostom—Hebrew “no evil shall befall the just.” If he be afflicted here, he will be amply rewarded hereafter. Septuagint “the just will not be pleased with any injustice.”

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