Proverbs 21:15
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Updated King James Version
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 pacifies anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
16The man that wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Cross References
Psalms 40:8I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.
Psalms 119:16I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word.
Proverbs 5:20And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Proverbs 21:12The righteous man wisely considers the house of the wicked: but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.
Isaiah 64:5You meet him that rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember you in your ways: behold, you are angry; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
Matthew 13:41The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which 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 →