Proverbs 14:11
The house of the sinner will be overturned, but the tent of the upright man will do well.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
In Context
10No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.
12There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
Cross References
Job 8:15He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.
Job 15:34For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.
Job 18:21Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.
Job 21:28For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?
Psalms 37:10For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.
Psalms 128:3Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:11
10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. This agrees with 1 Cor. ii. 11 , What man knows the things of a man, and the changes of his temper, save the spirit of a man? 1. Every man feels most from his own burden, especially that which is a burden upon the spirits, for that is commonly concealed and the sufferer keeps it to himself. We must not censure the griefs of others, for we know not what they feel; their stroke perhaps is heavier than their groaning. 2. Many… Read the whole commentary →