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Proverbs 11

Prov. 11:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Byk the blessing
Brakah (Hebrew #1293)
benediction; by implication prosperity
KJV usage: blessing, liberal, pool, present.
Pronounce: ber-aw-kaw'
Origin: from 1288
of the upright
yashar (Hebrew #3477)
straight (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: convenient, equity, Jasher, just, meet(-est), + pleased well right(-eous), straight, (most) upright(-ly, -ness).
Pronounce: yaw-shawr'
Origin: from 3474
the city
qereth (Hebrew #7176)
a city
KJV usage: city.
Pronounce: keh'-reth
Origin: from 7136 in the sense of building
is exalted
ruwm (Hebrew #7311)
to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high(-er, one), hold up, levy, lift(-er) up, (be) lofty, (X a-)loud, mount up, offer (up), + presumptuously, (be) promote(-ion), proud, set up, tall(-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.
Pronounce: room
Origin: a primitive root
: but it is overthrown
harac (Hebrew #2040)
to pull down or in pieces, break, destroy
KJV usage: beat down, break (down, through), destroy, overthrow, pluck down, pull down, ruin, throw down, X utterly.
Pronounce: haw-ras'
Origin: a primitive root
by the mouth
peh (Hebrew #6310)
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), X eat, edge, end, entry, + file, hole, X in, mind, mouth, part, portion, X (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, X spoken, talk, tenor, X to, + two-edged, wish, word.
Pronounce: peh
Origin: from 6284
of the wicked
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
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Prov. 14:34• 34Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to peoples. (Prov. 14:34)

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the blessing.
Prov. 14:34• 34Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to peoples. (Prov. 14:34)
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Prov. 29:8• 8Scornful men set the city in a flame; but the wise turn away anger. (Prov. 29:8)
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Gen. 41:38‑42• 38And Pharaoh said to his bondmen, Shall we find one as this, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
 39And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has made all this known to thee, there is none so discreet and wise as thou.
 40Thou shalt be over my house, and according to thy commandment shall all my people regulate themselves; only concerning the throne will I be greater than thou.
 41And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
 42And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in clothes of byssus, and put a gold chain on his neck. (Gen. 41:38‑42)
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Gen. 45:8• 8And now it was not you that sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and governor over all the land of Egypt. (Gen. 45:8)
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2 Chron. 32:20‑22• 20And because of this, king Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz prayed and cried to heaven.
 21And Jehovah sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the princes and the captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. And he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels made him fall there with the sword.
 22And Jehovah saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all, and protected them on every side. (2 Chron. 32:20‑22)
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Job 22:30• 30Even him that is not innocent shall he deliver; yea, he shall be delivered by the pureness of thy hands. (Job 22:30)
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Eccl. 9:15• 15and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that poor man. (Eccl. 9:15)
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2 Sam. 20:1• 1And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel. (2 Sam. 20:1)
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Esther 3:8‑15• 8And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from those of every people, and they keep not the king's laws; and it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
 9If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have charge of the affairs, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
 10And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
 11And the king said to Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as seems good to thee.
 12Then were the king's scribes called, in the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month, and there was written according to all that Haman commanded unto the king's satraps, and to the governors over every province, and to the princes of every people; to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people according to their language: in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.
 13And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, upon the thirteenth of the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
 14That the decree might be given in every province, a copy of the writing was published to all peoples, that they should be ready against that day.
 15The couriers went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the fortress. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was in consternation. (Esther 3:8‑15)
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Esther 9:1‑16• 1And in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day thereof, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them (but it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had power over them that hated them),
 2the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout the provinces of king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt. And no man could withstand them; for the fear of them had fallen upon all the peoples.
 3And all the princes of the provinces, and the satraps, and the governors and officers of the king, helped the Jews; for the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.
 4For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went forth throughout the provinces; for the man Mordecai became continually greater.
 5And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword and slaughter and destruction, and did what they would to those that hated them.
 6And in Shushan the fortress the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
 7And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
 8and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
 9and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,
 10the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the oppressor of the Jews, they slew; but they laid not their hands on the prey.
 11On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the fortress was brought before the king.
 12And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the fortress, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? And what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee; and what is thy request further? and it shall be done.
 13And Esther said, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews that are in Shushan to do to-morrow also according to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
 14And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
 15And the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but they laid not their hand on the prey.
 16And the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their life, and had rest from their enemies; and they slew of them that hated them seventy-five thousand (but they laid not their hand on the prey), (Esther 9:1‑16)
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James 3:6• 6and the tongue is fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell. (James 3:6)
• Thus men rejoiced over the downfall of Abimelech (Judges 9:53-57), and, in a later day, upon the exaltation of David (2 Sam. 19:14). (“Proverbs Eleven” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted; but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.