Proverbs 14:11
Houses built by wicked people will be destroyed, but houses built by good/righteous people will last for a long time.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
In Context
Cross References
Job 8:15If they lean against a house (OR, trust in their wealth; OR, lean on a spider web), it does not ◄endure/protect them► [LIT]; they cling to things to be protected, but those things do not remain firm.
Job 15:34Wicked/godless people will not have any descendants, and fires will completely burn up the homes of those who built those homes using money they received from bribes.
Job 18:21And that is what happens to ungodly/sinful people like you, to people who ◄have no interest in/have rejected► God.”
Job 21:28You say, ‘What happened to the tents in which wicked people were living? The houses of evil rulers have been destroyed!’
Psalms 37:10Soon the wicked will disappear. If you look for them, they will be gone.
Psalms 128:3Your wife will be like a grapevine that bears many grapes [SIM]; she will give birth to many children. Your children who sit around your table will be like a strong olive tree that has many shoots growing up around it [SIM].
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:11
10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. This agrees with 1 Cor. ii. 11 , What man knows the things of a man, and the changes of his temper, save the spirit of a man? 1. Every man feels most from his own burden, especially that which is a burden upon the spirits, for that is commonly concealed and the sufferer keeps it to himself. We must not censure the griefs of others, for we know not what they feel; their stroke perhaps is heavier than their groaning. 2. Many… Read the whole commentary →