Proverbs 21:7
The spoil of the wicked catches them, || Because they have refused to do judgment.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
In Context
6The making of treasures by a lying tongue, || [Is] a vanity driven away of those seeking death.
8The way of a man who is vile [is] contrary, || And the pure—his work [is] upright.
Cross References
Psalms 9:16YHWH has been known, || He has done judgment; By a work of his hands || The wicked has been snared. Meditation. Selah.
Proverbs 10:6Blessings [are] for the head of the righteous, || And the mouth of the wicked covers violence.
Proverbs 22:22Do not rob the poor because he [is] poor, || And do not bruise the afflicted in the gate.
Isaiah 1:23Your princes [are] apostates, and companions of thieves, || Everyone loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, || They do not judge the fatherless, || And the plea of the widow does not come to them.
Jeremiah 7:15And I have cast you from before My face, || As I have cast out all your brothers, || The whole seed of Ephraim.
Ezekiel 22:13And behold, I have struck My hand, || Because of your dishonest gain that you have gained, || And for your blood that has been in your midst.
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 →