Proverbs 21:7
The robberie of the wicked shall destroy them: for they haue refused to execute iudgement.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
In Context
8The way of some is peruerted and strange: but of the pure man, his worke is right.
Cross References
Psalms 9:16The Lord is knowen by executing iudgement: the wicked is snared in the worke of his owne handes. Higgaion. Selah.
Proverbs 10:6Blessings are vpon the head of the righteous: but iniquitie shall couer the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 22:22Robbe not the poore, because hee is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in iudgement.
Isaiah 1:23Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeues: euery one loueth giftes, and followeth after rewards: they iudge not the fatherlesse, neither doeth the widowes cause come before them.
Jeremiah 7:15And I will cast you out of my sight, as I haue cast out all your brethren, euen the whole seede of Ephraim.
Ezekiel 22:13Beholde, therefore I haue smitten mine hands vpon thy couetousnesse, that thou hast vsed, and vpon the blood, which hath bene in the middes of thee.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:7
6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. This shows the folly of those that hope to enrich themselves by dishonest practices, by oppressing and over-reaching those with whom they deal, by false-witness-bearing, or by fraudulent contracts, of those that make no scruples of lying when there is any thing to be got by it. They may perhaps heap up treasures by these means, that which they make their treasure; but, 1. They will not meet with the satisfaction… Read the whole commentary →