Proverbs 21:7
The destruction caused by the wicked will destroy them, for they refuse to do what's right.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
In Context
6Money made by lies is like smoke in the wind—a chase that ends in death.
8Guilty people live crooked lives, but the innocent follow straight paths.
Cross References
Psalms 9:16The Lord is known for his fairness; the wicked are trapped by their own actions. Higgaion. Selah.
Proverbs 10:6Those who are good are blessed, but what the wicked say hides their violent nature.
Proverbs 22:22For you shouldn't steal from the poor just because they're poor; and you shouldn't crush those with limited means in court,
Isaiah 1:23Your leaders are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and want to get kickbacks. They don't defend the rights of orphans, and refuse to take cases to help widows.
Jeremiah 7:15I will throw you out of my presence, just as I expelled all your Israelite relatives, all the descendants of Ephraim.
Ezekiel 22:13So watch out! I clap my hands in condemnation at your dishonest profiteering and at all your murders.
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 →