Proverbs 21:7
The robbery of the wicked will drag them away; because they refuse to execute justice.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 9:16(9:17) The Lord is made known: he executed justice: through the doing of his own hands is the wicked ensnared. Higgayon, Selah.
Proverbs 10:6Blessings come upon the head of the righteous; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.
Proverbs 22:22Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither crush the afflicted in the gate;
Isaiah 1:23Thy princes are rebels, and companions of thieves; every one loveth brides, and runneth after rewards; to the fatherless they will not do justice, and the cause of the widow doth not come unto them.
Jeremiah 7:15And I will cast you out of my presence, as I have cast out all your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.
Ezekiel 22:13And behold, I have struck my hands together at thy wrongful gain which thou hast acquired, and at thy blood-guilt which hath been 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 →