SEV Biblia, Chapter 21:18
¶ El rescate del justo será el impío, y por los rectos el prevaricador.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:18
Verse 18. The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous ] God often in his judgments cuts off the wicked, in order to prevent them from destroying the righteous. And in general, we find that the wicked fall into the traps and pits they have digged for the righteous.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18. The wicked [shall be] a ransom for the righteous , etc.] Not to make satisfaction for them, as Christ is a ransom for his people; but as a ransom is in the room of another, so the wicked cometh in the stead of the righteous, and into the trouble he is delivered from; as Haman for Mordecai, which instance Jarchi mentions; (see Proverbs 11:8); or when a body of people are threatened with divine vengeance; and this falls upon the wicked, whose sins caused it, and the righteous are delivered from it; as in the case of Achan, and the seven sons of Saul, ( Joshua 7:26 <102101> Samuel 21:1-6). And sometimes God turns the wrath of the princes of the earth from his own people, and causes it to fall upon the wicked, and so they are a ransom for them; as Sennacherib intended the destruction of the Jews, but was called off in providence to fall upon the Egyptians, Ethiopians, and Sabeans, and therefore they are said to be a ransom for them; (see Isaiah 43:3); and sometimes wicked men are the means of a ransom or deliverance of the righteous, as Cyrus was of the Jews: and it may be considered, as the word used signifies a “cover” f583 , whether it will not bear this sense, that the wicked are a cover for the righteous, and oftentimes protect and defend them; so the earth helped the woman, ( Revelation 12:16); and the transgressor for the upright ; which are but different characters of the same persons, bad and good men; and the sense is the same as before.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 18 - The righteous is often delivered out of trouble, and the wicked come in his stead, and so seems as a ransom for him.
Original Hebrew
כפר 3724 לצדיק 6662 רשׁע 7563 ותחת 8478 ישׁרים 3477 בוגד׃ 898
