Proverbs 21:12
The righteous person watches the house of the wicked person; 1 he brings wicked people to disaster. 1
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Genesis 19:29So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God called Abraham to mind. He sent Lot out of the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities in which Lot had lived.
Job 8:15He leans on his house, but it will not support him; 1 he takes hold of it, but it does not stand. 1
Job 21:28For you say, 'Where now is the house of the prince? 1 Where is the tent in which the wicked man once lived?' 1
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked and terrifying person 1 spread out like a green tree in its native soil. 1
Psalms 107:43Whoever is wise should take note of these things 1 and meditate on Yahweh's acts of covenant faithfulness.
Proverbs 13:6Righteousness protects those who are faultless in their path, 1 but wickedness turns away those who commit sin. 1
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:12
11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge. This we had before ( ch. xix. 25 ), and it shows that there are two ways by which the simple may be made wise:—1. By the punishments that are inflicted on those that are incorrigibly wicked. Let the law be executed upon a scorner, and even he that is simple will be awakened and alarmed by it, and will discern, more than he did, the evil of sin, and will take warning by it and take heed. 2. By the… Read the whole commentary →