But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth,.... Suddenly by death; or in a judicial way by the hand of the civil magistrate, before they have lived out half their days; and shall not enjoy the good things of the earth they have been seeking for, and laying up, and promising themselves a long and quiet possession of; but, on the contrary, like unfruitful trees, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire; and, however, shall not dwell in the second Adam's earth, in the new earth, but shall perish out of his land, Psa 10:16; see Psa 37:2;
and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it; such as have acted treacherously and perfidiously (c), and are opposed to upright men; as the wicked are to the righteous, pure, and spotless; these shall not only be cut off as trees to the stump, but be rooted up, and have neither root nor branch left them; they shall have no posterity to succeed them, and their memory shall utterly perish; see Mal 4:1; or "shall be scraped off", or "swept away" (d), as the dust and dross of the earth, and the offscouring of all things.
(c) "perfide agentis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "perfidi", Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens. (d) "eradentur", Montanus, Mercerus, Gejerus; "everrentur", Schultens.
Next: Proverbs Chapter 3
{"api_compact_wrapper_recipe":"native-api-generated-wrapper-v1","api_source_document_ref":"454752a6a8e11f637690a072419f69cb756ba8ab4e84eaaed0c09eeb5aeeb656","id":"sermonindex-native-api:api/c/john-gill/PRO/2.json#$/chapter/content/21","native_JSON_pointer":"$/chapter/content/21","native_content_joiner":"\n\n","native_content_part_lengths":[1273],"native_reference":{"book":{"context_sha256":"630de8a514c7ffa09268dbdfd85973b21aefacc9a3ad3fbb2d874d237eefe8aa","native_id":"PRO"},"chapter":2,"unit_number":22,"unit_type":"verse"},"native_unit_metadata":{"number":22,"type":"verse"},"native_unit_payload_sha256":"47ceefe332b6f484cd7d409484f81d09c464dbb8bd6830556e29485424d2dd0a","original_identifier_basis":"existing native API member + JSON pointer","public_import_allowed":false,"reading_text_policy":"Native full content strings preserved, with explicit double-newline joins and exact part lengths; no stripping, snippet recursion, canonical verse inference or translation.","record_type":"native-commentary-unit-unreviewed","references":[],"review_status":"structural-native-unit-unreviewed","semantic_kind_reviewed":false}