Proverbs 21:16
The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
In Context
15It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.
17The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.
Cross References
Psalms 49:14\49:13\This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)
Proverbs 2:18For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:
Proverbs 7:26For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.
Proverbs 13:20Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.
Zephaniah 1:6And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.
Ephesians 2:1And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:16
15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. Note, 1. It is a pleasure and satisfaction to good men both to see justice administered by the government they live under, right taking place and iniquity suppressed, and also to practise it themselves, according as their sphere is. They not only do justice, but do it with pleasure, not only for fear of shame, but for love of virtue. 2. It is a terror to wicked men to see the laws put in execution against vice and… Read the whole commentary →