Proverbs 21:12
The righteous man wysely considereth the house of the wicked, and for their wickednesse [God] ouerthroweth the vngodly.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
In Context
13Who so stoppeth his eares at the crying of the poore, he shall crye hym selfe and not be hearde.
Cross References
Genesis 19:29And it came to passe, that when God destroyed the cities of that region, he thought vpon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the middest of the ouerthrow, when he ouerthrewe the cities, in one of the whiche Lot dwelled.
Proverbs 13:6Ryghteousnesse kepeth the innocent in the way: but vngodlinesse doth ouerthrowe the sinner.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:12
11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge. This we had before ( ch. xix. 25 ), and it shows that there are two ways by which the simple may be made wise:—1. By the punishments that are inflicted on those that are incorrigibly wicked. Let the law be executed upon a scorner, and even he that is simple will be awakened and alarmed by it, and will discern, more than he did, the evil of sin, and will take warning by it and take heed. 2. By the… Read the whole commentary →