SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:18
¶ El impío hace obra falsa; mas el que sembrare justicia, tendrá galardón firme.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 11:18
Verse 18. Worketh a deceitful work ] An unstable work; nothing is durable that he does, except his crimes.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18. The wicked worketh a deceitful work , etc.] Such a wicked man as before described; that neither enjoys the good things of life he has, nor suffers others to enjoy them; and all to accumulate riches, which are deceitful and perishing; and who abstains from meats, which God has created for use, under a pretence of religion, and so deceives his own soul; and indeed every sin which a wicked man commits is a deceitful work; it promises him that pleasure, or profit, or liberty, which it does not give him, and in the issue is the ruin of him; and so all false doctrines, propagated by deceitful workers, are deceitful works, by which they deceive the simple, and at last themselves; they “obtain a deceitful reward of [their] work”, as Gussetius renders it; but to him that soweth righteousness ; does acts of beneficence and liberality; (see 2 Corinthians 9:9,10); and all other good works, or works of righteousness, [shall be] a sure reward ; according to what a man sows, and the manner in which he sows, so shall he reap, ( 2 Corinthians 9:6 Galatians 6:8); or, “a reward of truth”; instead of being given up to believe a lie, he shall receive the love of the truth, and abide in it, which will bring him to eternal glory and happiness; he being chosen to it through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth, ( 2 Thessalonians 2:10-13); and, instead of a deceitful reward, shall have a true, real, solid, and substantial one.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 18 - He that makes it his business to do good, shall have a reward, as sure to him as eternal truth can make it.
Original Hebrew
רשׁע 7563 עשׂה 6213 פעלת 6468 שׁקר 8267 וזרע 2232 צדקה 6666 שׂכר 7938 אמת׃ 571
