Proverbs 21:15
To do justice [is] joy to the righteous, But ruin to workers of iniquity.
Young's Literal Translation
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 bribe in the bosom strong fury.
16A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, In an assembly of Rephaim resteth.
Cross References
Psalms 40:8To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law [is] within my heart.
Psalms 119:16In Thy statutes I delight myself, I do not forget Thy word.
Proverbs 5:20And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
Proverbs 21:12The Righteous One is acting wisely Towards the house of the wicked, He is overthrowing the wicked for wickedness.
Isaiah 64:5Thou hast met with the rejoicer And the doer of righteousness, In Thy ways they remember Thee, Lo, Thou hast been wroth when we sin, By them [is] continuance, and we are saved.
Matthew 13:41the Son of Man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather up out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing the unlawlessness,
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 →