Proverbs 21:15
It is joy to the righteous to do judgment; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
In Context
14A gift in secret pacifieth anger, and a present in the bosom strong wrath.
16The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall rest in the congregation of the dead.
Cross References
Psalms 40:8I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart.
Psalms 119:16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Proverbs 5:20For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Proverbs 21:12The righteous man considereth the house of the wicked; how the wicked are overthrown to their ruin.
Isaiah 64:5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them have we been of long time, and shall we be saved?
Matthew 13:41The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and them that do iniquity,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:15
14 A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath. Here is, 1. The power that is commonly found to be in gifts. Nothing is more violent than anger. O the force of strong wrath! And yet a handsome present, prudently managed, will turn away some men's wrath when it seemed implacable, and disarm the keenest and most passionate resentments. Covetousness is commonly a master-sin and has the command of other lusts. Pecuniæ obediunt omnia — Money commands all things. Thus Jacob pacified Esau and… Read the whole commentary →