Proverbs 10:7

Modern

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Traditional

The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

Literal

The memory of the righteous is for a blessing, and the name of the wicked will rot.

Latin

Memoria justi cum laudibus, et nomen impiorum putrescet.

Hebrew

English

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

the name of the wicked will rot: In ancient Israel, as in today's Middle East, honor and shame were strong motivators.

Psalm 112:6
Surely he will never be shaken; the righteous man will be remembered forever.
Luke 1:48
For He has looked with favor on the humble state of His servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed.
Mark 14:9
And truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached in all the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
Psalm 109:13
May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
2 Chronicles 24:16
And Jehoiada was buried with the kings in the City of David, because he had done what was good in Israel for God and His temple.
Psalm 109:15
May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
Psalm 9:5–6
You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.
Job 18:17
The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
2 Kings 19:34
I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
1 Kings 11:36
I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.
Ecclesiastes 8:10
Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.
Job 27:23
It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.