Proverbs 21:12

A righteous man understands the hearts of the ungodly: and despises the ungodly for their wickedness.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

In Context

11When an intemperate man is punished the simple becomes wiser: and a wise man understanding will receive knowledge.

13He that stops his ears from hearing the poor, himself also shall cry, and there shall be none to hear him.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:29And it came to pass that when God destroyed all the cities of the region round about, God remembered Abraam, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when the Lord overthrew those cities in which Lot dwelt.

Job 8:15If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.

Job 21:28so that ye will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?

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 →

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