Proverbs 21:7
Destruction shall lodge with the ungodly; for they refuse to do justly.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
In Context
6He that gathers treasures with a lying tongue pursues vanity on to the snares of death.
8To the froward God sends froward ways; for his works are pure and right.
Cross References
Psalms 9:16The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken.
Proverbs 10:6The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the just: but untimely grief shall cover the mouth of the ungodly.
Proverbs 22:22Do no violence to the poor, for he is needy: neither dishonour the helpless man in the gates.
Isaiah 1:23Thy princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.
Jeremiah 7:15And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast away your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.
Ezekiel 22:13And if I shall smite my hand at thine iniquities which thou hast accomplished, which thou hast wrought, and at thy blood that has 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 →