Proverbs 21:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.”
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“The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The righteous man considereth the house of the wicked, Howthe wicked are overthrown to their ruin.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“The Righteous One is acting wisely Towards the house of the wicked, He is overthrowing the wicked for wickedness.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 21:12 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 19:29So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
- Job 5:3I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
- Job 8:15He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.
- Job 18:14He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
- Job 21:28For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
- Job 27:13This is the wicked man’s portion from God— the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
- Psalms 37:35I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
- Psalms 52:5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
- Psalms 107:43Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.
- Proverbs 11:3The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.
- Proverbs 13:6Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness undermines the sinner.
- Proverbs 14:11The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
- Hosea 14:9Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.
- Amos 4:11“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
- Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
- 1 Corinthians 10:5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
- 2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
- 2 Peter 3:6through which the world of that time perished in the flood.
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