Proverbs 21:15
It is joy to the righteous to execute justice; but it is a terror to wrong-doers.
Leeser Tanakh
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 bribe in the bosom, strong fury.
Cross References
Psalms 40:8(40:9) To fulfill thy will, O my God, do I desire; and thy law is within my heart.
Psalms 119:16In thy statutes will I seek my delight: I will not forget thy word.
Proverbs 5:20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of an alien woman?
Proverbs 21:12The righteous regardeth attentively the house of the wicked; [but God] overturneth the wicked into unhappiness.
Isaiah 64:5(64:4) Thou acceptest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, for we had sinned on them continually; and can we thus 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 →