Proverbs 11:10 - Exposition

The city; any city. Ewald would argue that such language could not be used of the capital of the Jews till the times of Asa or Jehoshaphat. But what is to prevent the sentence being taken generally of any city or community? The Vatican manuscript of the Septuagint and some others give here only the first clause, "In the prosperity of the righteous the city succeeds," adding from Proverbs 11:11 , "but by the mouths of the wicked it is overthrown" (see on Proverbs 11:4 ; comp. Psalms 58:10 , etc.).