Proverbs 21 (KJV With Strong's) - Bible Truth Library

Verse 11

Verse 13

Articles on

Proverbs 21

Prov. 21:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

The righteous man wiselyb considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

Psa. 107:43• ⁴³Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord. (Psa. 107:43)

;

Hos. 14:9• ⁹Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein. (Hos. 14:9)

More on:

God,

House,

Righteousness

Cross References

Ministry on This Verse

wisely.

Job 5:3• ³I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. (Job 5:3)

;

Job 8:15• ¹⁵He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. (Job 8:15)

;

Job 18:14‑21• ¹⁴His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
¹⁵It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered 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 in the street.
¹⁸He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
¹⁹He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
²⁰They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God. (Job 18:14‑21)

;

Job 21:28‑30• ²⁸For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
²⁹Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
³⁰That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. (Job 21:28‑30)

;

Job 27:13‑23• ¹³This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of 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 in death: and his widows shall not weep.
¹⁶Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment 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 a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
¹⁹The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
²⁰Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
²¹The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
²²For 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)

;

Psa. 37:35‑36• ³⁵I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
³⁶Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. (Psa. 37:35‑36)

;

Psa. 52:5• ⁵God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. (Psa. 52:5)

;

Psa. 107:43• ⁴³Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord. (Psa. 107:43)

;

Hab. 2:9‑12• ⁹Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
¹⁰Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy 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 stablisheth a city by iniquity! (Hab. 2:9‑12)

overthroweth.

Prov. 11:3‑5• ³The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
⁴Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
⁵The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. (Prov. 11:3‑5)

;

Prov. 13:6• ⁶Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner. (Prov. 13:6)

;

Prov. 14:32• ³²The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. (Prov. 14:32)

;

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 the which Lot dwelt. (Gen. 19:29)

;

Amos 4:11• ¹¹I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. (Amos 4:11)

;

1 Cor. 10:5• ⁵But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. (1 Cor. 10:5)

;

2 Peter 2:4‑9• ⁴For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
⁵And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
⁶And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
⁷And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
⁸(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
⁹The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: (2 Peter 2:4‑9)

;

2 Peter 3:6‑7• ⁶Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
⁷But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition 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

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

JND Translation Notes

Or "in evil."