Text -- Proverbs 11:6 (NET)

11:6 The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the faithless will be captured by their own desires.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 11:6

¹ sn The contrast is between being rescued or delivered (נָצַל, natsal) and being captured (לָכַד, lakhad). Righteousness is freeing; [evil] desires are enslaving.

² tn Heb “taken captive” (so NRSV); NIV, TEV “are trapped.”

³ tn Heb “but by the desire of the faithless are they taken captive.”