Proverbs 21:15
To do justly is joy to the righteous, but ruin to the workers of iniquity.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 gift in secret pacifieth anger, and a present in the bosom strong wrath.
16The man that strayeth out of the way of understanding shall rest in the congregation of the shades.
Cross References
Psalms 40:8(40-9) I delight to do Thy will, O my God; yea, Thy law is in my inmost parts.'
Psalms 119:16I will delight myself in Thy statutes; I will not forget Thy word.
Proverbs 5:20Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?
Proverbs 21:12The Righteous One considereth the house of the wicked; overthrowing the wicked to their ruin.
Isaiah 64:5(64-4) Thou didst take away him that joyfully worked righteousness, those that remembered Thee in Thy ways — behold, Thou wast wroth, and we sinned — upon them have we stayed of old, that we might be saved.
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 →