Proverbs 21:7
The robberies of the impious will drag them down, because they were not willing to do judgment.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
In Context
8The perverse way of a man is foreign. But whoever is pure: his work is upright.
Cross References
Psalms 9:16I will exult in your salvation. The Gentiles have become trapped in the ruin that they made. Their foot has been caught in the same snare that they themselves had hidden.
Proverbs 10:6The blessing of the Lord is on the head of the just. But iniquity covers the mouth of the impious.
Proverbs 22:22Do not act with violence toward the pauper because he is poor. And do not weary the needy at the gate.
Isaiah 1:23Your leaders are unfaithful, the associates of thieves. They all love gifts; they pursue rewards. They do not judge for orphans, and the widow’s case is not brought before them.
Jeremiah 7:15And I will cast you away from my face, just as I have cast away all your brothers, the entire offspring of Ephraim.
Ezekiel 22:13Behold, I have clapped my hands over your avarice, which you have worked, and over the blood that has been shed in your midst.
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 →