Proverbs 21:15
It is gladness for the just to do judgment; and it is dread for those who work iniquity.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
In Context
16A man who wanders astray from the way of doctrine will linger in the company of the giants.
Cross References
Psalms 40:8All my enemies were whispering against me. They were thinking up evils against me.
Proverbs 5:20Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?
Proverbs 21:12The just thinks carefully about the house of the impious, so that he may draw the impious away from evil.
Isaiah 64:5You have met with those who rejoice in doing justice. By your ways, they will remember you. Behold, you have been angry, for we have sinned. In this, we have continued, but we will be saved.
Matthew 13:41The Son of man shall send out his Angels, and they shall gather from his kingdom all who lead astray and those who work iniquity.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:15
14 A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath. Here is, 1. The power that is commonly found to be in gifts. Nothing is more violent than anger. O the force of strong wrath! And yet a handsome present, prudently managed, will turn away some men's wrath when it seemed implacable, and disarm the keenest and most passionate resentments. Covetousness is commonly a master-sin and has the command of other lusts. Pecuniæ obediunt omnia — Money commands all things. Thus Jacob pacified Esau and… Read the whole commentary →