Proverbs 21:7
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
In Context
8The way of man is perverse and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
Cross References
Psalms 9:16The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Proverbs 10:6Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 22:22Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Isaiah 1:23Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come unto them.
Jeremiah 7:15And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
Ezekiel 22:13Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
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 →