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Proverbs 21

Prov. 21:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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It is joy
simchah (Hebrew #8057)
blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival)
KJV usage: X exceeding(-ly), gladness, joy(-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice(-ing).
Pronounce: sim-khaw'
Origin: from 8056
to the just
tsaddiyq (Hebrew #6662)
just
KJV usage: just, lawful, righteous (man).
Pronounce: tsad-deek'
Origin: from 6663
to do
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
judgment
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
: butf destruction
mchittah (Hebrew #4288)
properly, a dissolution; concretely, a ruin, or (abstractly) consternation
KJV usage: destruction, dismaying, ruin, terror.
Pronounce: mekh-it-taw'
Origin: from 2846
shall be to the workers
pa`al (Hebrew #6466)
to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise
KJV usage: commit, (evil-) do(-er), make(-r), ordain, work(-er).
Pronounce: paw-al'
Origin: a primitive root
of iniquity
'aven (Hebrew #205)
strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
KJV usage: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain ,vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare 369.
Pronounce: aw-ven'
Origin: from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught)
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Matt. 7:23• 23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. (Matt. 7:23)

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Ministry on This Verse

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joy.
Job 29:12‑17• 12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
 13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
 14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
 15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
 16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
 17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. (Job 29:12‑17)
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Psa. 40:8• 8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. (Psa. 40:8)
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Psa. 112:1• 1Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. (Psa. 112:1)
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Psa. 119:16,92• 16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
 92Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. (Psa. 119:16,92)
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Eccl. 3:12• 12I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. (Eccl. 3:12)
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Isa. 64:5• 5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. (Isa. 64:5)
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John 4:34• 34Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. (John 4:34)
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Rom. 7:22• 22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: (Rom. 7:22)
destruction.
Prov. 21:12• 12The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness. (Prov. 21:12)
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Prov. 5:20• 20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? (Prov. 5:20)
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Prov. 10:29• 29The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. (Prov. 10:29)
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Matt. 7:23• 23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. (Matt. 7:23)
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Matt. 13:41‑42• 41The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
 42And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 13:41‑42)
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Luke 13:27‑28• 27But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
 28There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. (Luke 13:27‑28)
• Take a business man who has learned to order his ways in public and private in integrity and honesty—to depart from principles such as these, would be, in his eyes, painful, and cause for grief and sorrow. But with too many it is accepted as an axiom that one cannot prosper in a business way and maintain the right. To attempt to do so seems to them to foreshadow certain and speedy failure. (“Proverbs Twenty-One” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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It is joy to a righteous man to do what is rightb; but it is ruin for the workers of iniquity.

JND Translation Notes

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b
Elsewhere "righteous judgment."