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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 observeth these things,{HR}Even they shall understand the mercies of Jehovah. (Psa. 107:43)

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Hos. 14:9• ⁹Who is wise, that he may understand these things? intelligent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the transgressors shall stumble thereon. (Hos. 14:9)

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Job 5:3• ³I have seen a fool taking root,{HR}And suddenly I cursed his habitation. (Job 5:3)

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Job 8:15• ¹⁵He leaneth on his house, but it standeth not,{HR}He fasteneth on it, but it abideth not. (Job 8:15)

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Job 18:14‑21• ¹⁴His confidence shall be torn out of his tent,{HR}And shall march him off to the king of terrors;
¹⁵There shall dwell in his tent what [is] not his;{HR}On his dwelling shall sulphur be scattered.
¹⁶Beneath, his roots shall be dried up,{HR}And above, his branch shall be cut off.
¹⁷His memorial shall perish from the earth,{HR}And he shall have no name on the plain.
¹⁸They shall drive him from light into darkness,{HR}And shall chase him from the world.
¹⁹No shoot nor sprout shall he have among his people,{HR}And no escaped one in his dwellings.
²⁰At his day they of the west will be astonished,{HR}And they of the east take fright.
²¹Surely so the dwellings of the wicked,{HR}And this 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?{HR}And where the tent of the habitations of the wicked?
²⁹Have ye not asked the passers-by?{HR}And their signs do ye not know?
³⁰To a day of destruction the wicked is spared,{HR}To a day of great wrath they are led off. (Job 21:28‑30)

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Job 27:13‑23• ¹³This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God,{HR}And the heritage of oppressors they receive from the Almighty.
¹⁴If his children multiply, [it is] for the sword,{HR}And his offspring have not enough of bread;
¹⁵His residue are buried in death, and their widows weep not.
¹⁶If he heap up silver as dust, and prepare clothing as clay,
¹⁷He prepareth, but the righteous shall put [it] on,{HR}And the innocent shall divide the silver.
¹⁸He hath built his house as a moth,{HR}And as a booth the watchman needeth.
¹⁹He lieth down, but shall not be gathered;{HR}He openeth his eyes, and he is not.
²⁰Terrors overtake him as waters,{HR}By night a tempest stealeth him away.
²¹An east wind taketh him up, and he is gone,{HR}And it sweepeth him out of his place;
²²And it casteth at him, and spareth not;{HR}From its hand he would gladly flee.
²³It clappeth its hands at him,{HR}And hisseth him out of his place. (Job 27:13‑23)

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Psa. 37:35‑36• ³⁵I have seen the wicked [man] strong{HR}And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
³⁶And he passeth away and behold he is not;{HR}And I seek him, and he is not found. (Psa. 37:35‑36)

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Psa. 52:5• ⁵God shall likewise destroy thee forever;{HR}He shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of tent,{HR}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 observeth these things,{HR}Even they shall understand the mercies of Jehovah. (Psa. 107:43)

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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 guideth them;{HR}But the crookedness of the treacherous destroyeth them.
⁴Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath;{HR}But righteousness delivereth from death.
⁵The righteousness of the perfect maketh plain his way;{HR}But the wicked falleth by his own wickedness. (Prov. 11:3‑5)

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Prov. 13:6• ⁶Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way;{HR}But wickedness overthroweth the sinner. (Prov. 13:6)

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Prov. 14:32• ³²The wicked is thrust down by his evil doings;{HR}But in his death the righteous trusteth. (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 among you, like God's overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrha, and ye were as a firebrand 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• ⁵but in the most of them God had no pleasure, 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 angels when they sinned, but cast them down to lowest hell and gave them up to chains of gloom reserved for judgment,
⁵and spared not an ancient world but preserved Noah an eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought a flood upon a world of ungodly ones;
⁶and reducing to ashes [the] cities of Sodom and Gomorrha, he condemned [them] with overthrow, having set an example to those that should live ungodlily,
⁷and rescued righteous Lot, distressed by the behaviour of those abandoned in licentiousness;
⁸for the righteous [man] dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing was tormenting a righteous soul day after day with lawless works,
⁹[the] Lord knoweth to deliver the godly out of trial, and to keep unjust [men] for judgment-day to be punished; (2 Peter 2:4‑9)

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2 Peter 3:6‑7• ⁶by which [waters] the then world being overflowed with water perished.
⁷But the now heavens and the earth by the same word have been stored with fire, being kept for 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

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

JND Translation Notes

Or "in evil."

W. Kelly Translation

The righteous considereth the house of the wicked:{HR}The wicked are overthrown to ruin.