Proverbs 21:12
The Righteous One is acting wisely || Toward the house of the wicked, || He is overthrowing the wicked for wickedness.
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In Context
13Whoever is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, || He also cries, and is not answered.
Cross References
Genesis 19:29And it comes to pass, in God’s destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembers Abraham, and sends Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt.
Job 8:15He leans on his house—and it does not stand, || He takes hold on it—and it does not abide.
Job 21:28For you say, Where [is] the house of the noble? And where the tent—the dwelling places of the wicked?
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked terrible, || And spreading as a green native plant,
Psalms 107:43Who [is] wise, and observes these? They understand the kind acts of YHWH!
Proverbs 13:6Righteousness keeps him who is perfect in the way, || And wickedness overthrows a sin offering.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:12
11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge. This we had before ( ch. xix. 25 ), and it shows that there are two ways by which the simple may be made wise:—1. By the punishments that are inflicted on those that are incorrigibly wicked. Let the law be executed upon a scorner, and even he that is simple will be awakened and alarmed by it, and will discern, more than he did, the evil of sin, and will take warning by it and take heed. 2. By the… Read the whole commentary →