Proverbs 15:25
The Lord will destroye the house of the proude men: but hee will stablish the borders of the widowe.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
In Context
24The way of life is on high to the prudent, to auoyde from hell beneath.
26The thoughts of ye wicked are abomination to the Lord: but the pure haue pleasant wordes.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:17For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lordes, a great God, mightie and terrible, which accepteth no persons nor taketh reward:
Job 24:21He doth euil intreat ye barren, that doeth not beare, neither doeth he good to the widowe.
Psalms 10:14Yet thou hast seene it: for thou beholdest mischiefe and wrong, that thou mayest take it into thine handes: the poore committeth himselfe vnto thee: for thou art the helper of the fatherlesse.
Psalms 52:5So shall God destroy thee for euer: he shall take thee and plucke thee out of thy tabernacle, and roote thee out of ye land of the liuing. Selah.
Psalms 138:6For the Lord is high: yet he beholdeth the lowly, but the proude he knoweth afarre off.
Proverbs 12:7God ouerthroweth the wicked, and they are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:25
24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath. The way of wisdom and holiness is here recommended to us, 1. As very safe and comfortable: It is the way of life, the way that leads to eternal life, in which we shall find the joy and satisfaction which will be the life of the soul, and at the end of which we shall find the perfection of blessedness. Be wise and live. It is the way to escape that misery which we cannot but see ourselves exposed to, and in danger of. It is to depart… Read the whole commentary →