Proverbs 21:15
To do justice [is] joy to the righteous, || But ruin to workers of iniquity.
Literal Standard Version
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 pacifies anger, || And a bribe in the bosom—strong fury.
16A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, || Rests in an assembly of Rephaim.
Cross References
Psalms 40:8I have delighted to do Your pleasure, my God, || And Your law [is] within my heart.”
Psalms 119:16I delight myself in Your statutes, || I do not forget Your word.
Proverbs 5:20And why do you magnify yourself, || My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
Proverbs 21:12The Righteous One is acting wisely || Toward the house of the wicked, || He is overthrowing the wicked for wickedness.
Isaiah 64:5You have met with the rejoicer || And the doer of righteousness, || In Your ways they remember You, || Behold, You have been angry when we sin, || By them [is] continuance, and we are saved.
Matthew 13:41the Son of Man will send forth His messengers, and they will gather up out of His kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing the lawlessness,
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 →