Proverbs 21:15
It is joy to a righteous [man] to do what is right; but it is ruin for the workers of iniquity.
Darby Translation
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
14A gift in secret pacifieth anger; and a present in the bosom, vehement fury.
16The man that wandereth out of the way of wisdom shall abide in the congregation of the dead.
Cross References
Psalms 40:8To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart.
Psalms 119:16I delight myself in thy statutes; I will not forget thy word.
Proverbs 5:20And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Proverbs 21:12One that is righteous wisely considereth the house of the wicked: he overthroweth the wicked to [their] ruin.
Isaiah 64:5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth to do righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: (behold, thou wast wroth, and we have sinned:) in those is perpetuity, and we shall be saved.
Matthew 13:41The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all offences, and those that practise lawlessness;
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 →