Proverbs 15:25
LORD will root up the house of the proud, but he will establish the border of the widow.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
In Context
24To the wise man the way of life [is] upward, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.
26Evil devices are an abomination to LORD, but pleasant words [are] pure.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:17For LORD your God, he is God of gods, and LORD of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who regards not persons, nor takes reward.
Job 24:21He devours the barren who do not bear, and does no good to the widow.
Psalms 10:14Thou have seen. For thou behold mischief and spite, to repay with thy hand. The poor man commits [himself] to thee. Thou have been the helper of the fatherless.
Psalms 52:5God will likewise destroy thee forever. He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalms 138:6For though LORD is high, yet he has respect to the lowly. But he knows the haughty from afar.
Proverbs 12:7The wicked are overthrown, and are not, but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:25
24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath. The way of wisdom and holiness is here recommended to us, 1. As very safe and comfortable: It is the way of life, the way that leads to eternal life, in which we shall find the joy and satisfaction which will be the life of the soul, and at the end of which we shall find the perfection of blessedness. Be wise and live. It is the way to escape that misery which we cannot but see ourselves exposed to, and in danger of. It is to depart… Read the whole commentary →