Proverbs 21:15
It is joy to the just to do judgment: and dread to them that work iniquity.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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 secret present quencheth anger: and a gift in the bosom, the greatest wrath.
16A man that shall wander out of the way of doctrine, shall abide in the company of the giants.
Cross References
Psalms 40:8All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me.
Proverbs 5:20Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?
Proverbs 21:12The just considereth seriously the house of the wicked, that he may withdraw the wicked from evil.
Isaiah 64:5Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in them we have been always, and we shall be saved.
Matthew 13:41The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity.
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 →