Proverbs 10:25
When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
In Context
24What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
26Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those who send him.
Cross References
Job 17:9Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
Psalms 15:5who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
Psalms 73:18Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
Proverbs 1:27when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:25-26
24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted. 25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation. It is here said, and said again, to the righteous, that it shall be well with them, and to the wicked, Woe to them; and these are set the one over against the other, for their mutual illustration. I. It shall be as ill with the wicked as they can fear, and as well with the righteous as they can desire. 1. The… Read the whole commentary →