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

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Ministry on This Verse

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wisely.
Job 5:3• 3I have seen 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, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. (Job 8:15)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Psa. 107:43• 43Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord. (Psa. 107:43)
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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)
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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)
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Prov. 13:6• 6Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner. (Prov. 13:6)
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Prov. 14:32• 32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope 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 the which Lot dwelt. (Gen. 19:29)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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

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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."