Proverbs 11:19

“As righteousness [tendeth] to life, etc.] Or, is unto life: not mere outward acts of moral righteousness; these may be done where there is no principle of spiritual life, and are no other than dead works, and will never bring to everlasting life; indeed the best righteousness of man’s is no justification of life, nor can it entitle to it, nor is meritorious of it. Godliness, or true holiness, has the promise of this life and that to come, (<540408>1 Timothy 4:8); and so here in the Hebrew text it is, “unto lives”f311, in the plural number. Internal grace, or powerful godliness, which is the new man that is created in righteousness, gives a meetness for everlasting life, and issues in it;…”

“Inference from Pro 11:18 (compare Pro 11:5-6; Pro 10:16).”

“righteousness: Pro 11:4, Pro 10:16, Pro 12:28, Pro 19:23; Act 10:35; Jo1 3:7, Jo1 3:10 he: Pro 1:16-19, Pro 7:22, Pro 7:23, Pro 8:36; Rom 2:8, Rom 2:9 Proverbs 11:20”

“19 Genuine righteousness reaches to life, And he who pursues evil does it to his death. The lxx translate υἱὸς δίκαιος, and the Syrian follows this unwarrantable quid pro quo; the Bible uses the phrase בן־עולה and the like, but not בן־צדקה. The Graec. Venet. (translating οὕτω) deprives the distich of its supposed independence. The Targ. renders כּן with the following ו as correlates, sic ... uti; but כן in comparative proverbs stands naturally in the second, and not in the first place (vid., p. 10). Without doubt כן is here a noun. It appears to have a personal sense, according to the parallel וּמרדּף, on which account Elster explains it: he who is firm, stedfast in righteousness, and…”