Proverbs 21:12
The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.
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In Context
13He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.
Cross References
Genesis 19:29So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.
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 21:28For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?
Psalms 37:35I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.
Psalms 107:43Let the wise give thought to these things, and see the mercies of the Lord.
Proverbs 13:6Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:12
11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge. This we had before ( ch. xix. 25 ), and it shows that there are two ways by which the simple may be made wise:—1. By the punishments that are inflicted on those that are incorrigibly wicked. Let the law be executed upon a scorner, and even he that is simple will be awakened and alarmed by it, and will discern, more than he did, the evil of sin, and will take warning by it and take heed. 2. By the… Read the whole commentary →