Proverbs 21:7
By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 9:16\9:15\The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.
Proverbs 10:6Blessings are on the head of the upright, but the face of sinners will be covered with sorrow.
Proverbs 22:22Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:
Isaiah 1:23Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
Jeremiah 7:15And I will send you away from before my face, as I have sent away all your brothers, even all the seed of Ephraim.
Ezekiel 22:13See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:7
6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. This shows the folly of those that hope to enrich themselves by dishonest practices, by oppressing and over-reaching those with whom they deal, by false-witness-bearing, or by fraudulent contracts, of those that make no scruples of lying when there is any thing to be got by it. They may perhaps heap up treasures by these means, that which they make their treasure; but, 1. They will not meet with the satisfaction… Read the whole commentary →