Proverbs 21:12
The just thinks carefully about the house of the impious, so that he may draw the impious away from evil.
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Genesis 19:29For when God overthrew the cities of that region, remembering Abraham, he freed Lot from the overthrow of the cities, in which he had dwelt.
Job 8:15He will lean on his house, and it will not stand; he will prop it up, but it will not rise.
Job 21:28For you say, “Where is the house of the ruler, and where are the tabernacles of the impious?”
Proverbs 13:6Justice guards the way of the innocent. But impiety undermines the sinner.
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 →