Proverbs 21:12
The Righteous One is acting wisely Towards the house of the wicked, He is overthrowing the wicked for wickedness.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
13Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.
Cross References
Genesis 19:29And it cometh to pass, in God's destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembereth Abraham, and sendeth Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt.
Job 8:15He leaneth on his house — and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it — and it abideth not.
Job 21:28For ye say, 'Where [is] the house of the noble? And where the tent — The tabernacles of the wicked?'
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,
Psalms 107:43Who [is] wise, and observeth these? They understand the kind acts of Jehovah!
Proverbs 13:6Righteousness keepeth him who is perfect in the way, And wickedness overthroweth a sin offering.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:12
11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge. This we had before ( ch. xix. 25 ), and it shows that there are two ways by which the simple may be made wise:—1. By the punishments that are inflicted on those that are incorrigibly wicked. Let the law be executed upon a scorner, and even he that is simple will be awakened and alarmed by it, and will discern, more than he did, the evil of sin, and will take warning by it and take heed. 2. By the… Read the whole commentary →