Proverbs 12:7
Wicked people will die before they become old and we will see them no more, but righteous people will live for many years and have many descendants.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:26When that happens, you will become famous forever, and people will exclaim, ‘The Almighty Commander of the armies of angels is the God who rules Israel.’ And you will cause that forever there will be descendants of mine who will rule.
Esther 9:14So the king commanded that the Jews be permitted to kill more of their enemies the next day. After he issued another order in Susa, the bodies of Haman’s ten sons were hanged.
Job 11:20But wicked people [SYN] will not be able to understand why bad things are happening to them; they will not have any way to escape from their troubles. The only thing that they will want to do is to die. [EUP]”
Job 27:18The houses that they build are as frail/fragile as [SIM] spider webs, or they are like flimsy huts that watchmen live in while they guard people’s fields.
Psalms 37:10Soon the wicked will disappear. If you look for them, they will be gone.
Psalms 37:36when I looked later, they were gone! I searched for them, but Yahweh had caused them to disappear.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:7
6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. In the foregoing verse the thoughts of the wicked and righteous were compared; here their words, and those are as the abundance of the heart is. 1. Wicked people speak mischief to their neighbours; and wicked indeed those are whose words are to lie in wait for blood; their tongues are swords to those that stand in their way, to good men whom they hate and persecute. See an instance, Luke xx. 20, 21 . 2. Good… Read the whole commentary →