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Proverbs 21

Prov. 21:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The righteous
tsaddiyq (Hebrew #6662)
just
KJV usage: just, lawful, righteous (man).
Pronounce: tsad-deek'
Origin: from 6663
man wiselyb considereth
sakal (Hebrew #7919)
to be (causatively, make or act) circumspect and hence, intelligent
KJV usage: consider, expert, instruct, prosper, (deal) prudent(-ly), (give) skill(-ful), have good success, teach, (have, make to) understand(-ing), wisdom, (be, behave self, consider, make) wise(- ly), guide wittingly.
Pronounce: saw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
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
: but God overthroweth
calaph (Hebrew #5557)
properly, to wrench, i.e. (figuratively) to subvert
KJV usage: overthrow, pervert.
Pronounce: saw-laf'
Origin: a primitive root
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
for their wickedness
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
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wisely.
Job 5:3• 3I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. (Job 5:3)
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Job 8:15• 15He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure. (Job 8:15)
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Job 18:14‑21• 14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:
15They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:
16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;
17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.
18He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
19He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.
20They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before them were affrighted.
21Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not *God.
(Job 18:14‑21)
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Job 21:28‑30• 28For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?
29Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens:
30That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath.
(Job 21:28‑30)
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Job 27:13‑23• 13This is the portion of the wicked man with *God, and the heritage of the violent, which they receive from the Almighty:--
14If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread;
15Those that remain of him shall be buried by death, and his widows shall not weep.
16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
17He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on; and the innocent shall divide the silver.
18He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a booth that a keeper maketh.
19He lieth down rich, but will do so no more; he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
20Terrors overtake him like waters; a whirlwind stealeth him away in the night.
21The east wind carrieth him away and he is gone; and as a storm it hurleth him out of his place.
22And God shall cast upon him and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
23Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
(Job 27:13‑23)
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Psa. 37:35‑36• 35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil:
36but he passed away, and behold, he was not; and I sought him, but he was not found.
(Psa. 37:35‑36)
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Psa. 52:5• 5*God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. (Psa. 52:5)
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Psa. 107:43• 43Whoso is wise, let him observe these things, and let them understand the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah. (Psa. 107:43)
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Hos. 14:9• 9Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? intelligent, and he shall know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the transgressors shall fall therein. (Hos. 14:9)
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Hab. 2:9‑12• 9Woe to him that getteth iniquitous gain to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the grasp of evil!
10Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thine own soul.
11For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
12Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by unrighteousness!
(Hab. 2:9‑12)
overthroweth.
Prov. 11:3‑5• 3The integrity of the upright guideth them; but the crookedness of the unfaithful destroyeth them.
4Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.
5The righteousness of the perfect maketh plain his way; but the wicked falleth by his own wickedness.
(Prov. 11:3‑5)
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Prov. 13:6• 6Righteousness preserveth him that is perfect in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner. (Prov. 13:6)
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Prov. 14:32• 32The wicked is driven away by his evil-doing; but the righteous trusteth, even in his death. (Prov. 14:32)
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Gen. 19:29• 29And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt. (Gen. 19:29)
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Amos 4:11• 11I have overthrown among you, like God's overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. (Amos 4:11)
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1 Cor. 10:5• 5yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert. (1 Cor. 10:5)
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2 Peter 2:4‑9• 4For if God spared not the angels who had sinned, but having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered them to chains of darkness to be kept for judgment;
5and spared not the old world, but preserved Noe, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6and having reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, setting them as an example to those that should afterwards live an ungodly life;
7and saved righteous Lot, distressed with the abandoned conversation of the godless,
8(for the righteous man through seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul day after day with their lawless works,)
9the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trial, and to keep the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished;
(2 Peter 2:4‑9)
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2 Peter 3:6‑7• 6through which waters the then world, deluged with water, perished.
7But the present heavens and the earth by his word are laid up in store, kept for fire unto a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
(2 Peter 3:6‑7)
 It is the final triumph of the righteous over the lawless that is referred to, I judge. (Proverbs Twenty-One by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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One that is righteous wisely considereth the house of the wicked: he overthroweth the wicked to their ruina.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "in evil."