Proverbs 21:7
The robberies of the wicked shall be their downfall, because they would not do judgment.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.
Cross References
Psalms 9:16I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they have prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.
Proverbs 10:6The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the just: but iniquity covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 22:22Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:
Isaiah 1:23Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to them.
Jeremiah 7:15And I will cast you away from before my face, as I have cast away all your brethren, the whole seed of Ephraim.
Ezekiel 22:13Behold, I have clapped my hands at thy covetousness, which thou hast exercised and at the blood that hath been shed: 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 →