Proverbs 21:7

The ravens of unpious men shall draw them down; for they would not do doom. (The robberies of the wicked shall pull them down; for what they do is wrong.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

In Context

6He that gathereth treasures by the tongue of a lie maker, ( or of a liar), is vain, and without heart; and he shall be hurled to the snares of death.

8The wayward way of a man is alien from God; but the work of him that is clean of sin, is rightful. (The evil way of a person is alien to God; but the work of him who is clean of sin, is upright.)

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Cross References

Psalms 9:16The Lord making dooms shall be known; the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. (The Lord is known by the judgements which he maketh; the sinner is caught in the works of his own hands.)

Proverbs 10:6The blessing of God is over the head of a just man; but wickedness covereth the mouth of wicked men. (The blessing of God is upon the heads of the righteous; but wickedness covereth the mouths of the wicked.)

Proverbs 22:22Do thou not violence to a poor man, for he is poor; neither defoul thou a needy man in the gate. (Do not thou do violence to a poor person, because he is poor; and do not take advantage of a needy person in court or at the city gates.)

Isaiah 1:23Thy princes be unfaithful, the fellows of thieves; all love gifts, and follow yieldings, either meeds; they deem not to a fatherless child, and the cause of a widow entereth not to them. (Thy leaders be unfaithful, the friends of thieves; all of them love gifts, and follow after bribes, or rewards; they do not judge favourably for a fatherless child, and a widow’s case never even cometh before them.)

Jeremiah 7:15And I shall cast you forth from my face, as I casted forth all your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.

Ezekiel 22:13Lo! I have smitten together mine hands on thine avarice, [or greediness], which thou didest, and on the blood which is shed out in the midst of thee. (Behold! I have struck my fist into my hand over thy greediness, and over the blood which is shed out in thy midst.)

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 →

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