Proverbs 21:15
It is joy to the righteous to do justice, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
In Context
14A gift in secret pacifies anger, and a present in the bosom, strong wrath.
16The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
Cross References
Psalms 40:8I delight to do thy will, O my God. Yea, thy law is within my heart.
Psalms 119:16I will delight myself in thy statutes. I will not forget thy word.
Proverbs 5:20For why should thou, my son, be ravished with an interloping woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Proverbs 21:12A righteous man considers the house of the wicked: the wicked are overthrown to ruin.
Isaiah 64:5Thou meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou were angry, and we sinned. Therefore we have erred.
Matthew 13:41The Son of man will send forth his agents, and they will gather out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing lawlessness,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:15
14 A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath. Here is, 1. The power that is commonly found to be in gifts. Nothing is more violent than anger. O the force of strong wrath! And yet a handsome present, prudently managed, will turn away some men's wrath when it seemed implacable, and disarm the keenest and most passionate resentments. Covetousness is commonly a master-sin and has the command of other lusts. Pecuniæ obediunt omnia — Money commands all things. Thus Jacob pacified Esau and… Read the whole commentary →