Proverbs 16:4
LORD has made everything for its own end, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
In Context
3Commit thy works to LORD, and thy purposes shall be established.
5Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to LORD. Hand in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Cross References
Job 21:30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
Isaiah 43:21the people whom I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.
Romans 11:36Because from him, and through him, and for him, are all things. To him is the glory into the ages. Truly.
2 Peter 2:3And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.
Revelation 4:11Thou are worthy, our Lord and God, the Holy, to take the glory and the honor and the power, because thou created all things, and because by thy will they are, and were created.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:4
3 Commit thy works unto the Lord , and thy thoughts shall be established. Note, 1. It is a very desirable thing to have our thoughts established, and not tossed, and put into a hurry, by disquieting cares and fears,—to go on in an even steady course of honesty and piety, not disturbed, or put out of frame, by any event or change,—to be satisfied that all shall work for good and issue well at last, and therefore to be always easy and sedate. 2. The only way to have our thoughts established is to commit our works to… Read the whole commentary →