Proverbs 21:7
The devastation of the wicked sweepeth them away, because they refuse to do what is right.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
In Context
6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting breath of them that seek death.
8Very crooked is the way of a guilty man; but as for the pure, his work is upright.
Cross References
Psalms 9:16Jehovah is known [by] the judgment he hath executed: the wicked is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Proverbs 10:6Blessings are upon the head of a righteous [man]; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.
Proverbs 22:22Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
Isaiah 1:23thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them.
Jeremiah 7:15and I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.
Ezekiel 22:13And behold, I have smitten mine hand at thine overreaching which thou hast done, and at thy bloodshed which hath been in the midst of thee.
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 →