but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
The scope of these verses is to show, 1. What great advantage true wisdom will be of to us; it will keep us from the paths of sin, which lead to ruin, and will therein do us a greater kindness than if it enriched us with all the wealth of the world. 2.
Commenting on Proverbs 2:10-22
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...
transgressors--or impious rebels (compare Jer 9:2). rooted out--utterly destroyed, as trees plucked up by the roots. Next: Proverbs Chapter 3