Proverbs 21:12
The righteous teacheth the house of the wicked: but God ouerthroweth the wicked for their euill.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
13He that stoppeth his eare at the crying of the poore, he shall also cry and not be heard.
Cross References
Genesis 19:29But yet when God destroyed the cities of the plaine, God thought vpon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the middes of the destruction, when he ouerthrewe the cities, wherein Lot dwelled.
Job 8:15He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.
Job 21:28For ye say, Where is the princes house? and where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling?
Psalms 37:35I haue seene the wicked strong, and spreading himselfe like a greene bay tree.
Psalms 107:43Who is wise that hee may obserue these things? for they shall vnderstand the louing kindnesse of the Lord.
Proverbs 13:6Righteousnesse preserueth the vpright of life: but wickednes ouerthroweth the sinner.
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 →