Proverbs 16:4
The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
In Context
3Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.
5Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.
Cross References
Job 21:30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
Isaiah 43:21The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.
Romans 11:36For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.
2 Peter 2:3In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction will not sleep.
Revelation 4:11“Worthy are You, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things; by Your will they exist and were created.”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:4
3 Commit thy works unto the Lord , and thy thoughts shall be established. Note, 1. It is a very desirable thing to have our thoughts established, and not tossed, and put into a hurry, by disquieting cares and fears,—to go on in an even steady course of honesty and piety, not disturbed, or put out of frame, by any event or change,—to be satisfied that all shall work for good and issue well at last, and therefore to be always easy and sedate. 2. The only way to have our thoughts established is to commit our works to… Read the whole commentary →