Proverbs 21:12 Cross References - JPS_ASV_Byz

¹² The Righteous One considereth the house of the wicked; overthrowing the wicked to their ruin.

²⁹ And 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.

³ I have seen the foolish taking root; but suddenly I beheld his habitation cursed.

¹⁵ He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

¹⁴ That wherein he trusteth shall be plucked out of his tent; and he shall be brought to the king of terrors. ¹⁵ There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. ¹⁶ His roots shall dry up beneath, and above shall his branch wither. ¹⁷ His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name abroad. ¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. ¹⁹ He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. ²⁰ They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before are affrighted. ²¹ Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

²⁸ For ye say: 'Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?' ²⁹ Have ye not asked them that go by the way; and will ye misdeem their tokens, ³⁰ That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led forth to the day of wrath?

¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty. ¹⁴ If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not have bread enough. ¹⁵ Those that remain of him shall be buried by pestilence, and his widows shall make no lamentation. ¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; ¹⁷ He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. ¹⁸ He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth which the keeper maketh. ¹⁹ He lieth down rich, but there shall be not to gather; he openeth his eyes, and his wealth is not. ²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest stealeth him away in the night. ²¹ The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; and it sweepeth him out of his place. ²² Yea, it hurleth at him, and spareth not; he would fain flee from its power. ²³ Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

³⁵ I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a leafy tree in its native soil. ³⁶ But one passed by, and, lo, he was not; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

⁵ (52:7) God will likewise break thee for ever, He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah

⁴³ Whoso is wise, let him observe these things, and let them consider the mercies of the LORD.

³ The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the perverseness of the faithless shall destroy them. ⁴ Riches profit not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death. ⁵ The righteousness of the sincere shall make straight his way; but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

⁶ Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

¹¹ The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; but the tent of the upright shall flourish.

³² The wicked is thrust down in his misfortune; but the righteous, even when he is brought to death, hath hope.

⁹ (14:10) Whoso is wise, let him understand these things, whoso is prudent, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the just do walk in them; but transgressors do stumble therein.

¹¹ I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the LORD.

⁹ Woe to him that gaineth evil gains for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! ¹⁰ Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast forfeited thy life. ¹¹ For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. ¹² Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!

⁵ Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased; for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

⁴ For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, being reserved unto judgment, ⁵ and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly, ⁶ and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live impiously, ⁷ and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life 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 lawless deeds): ⁹ the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment,

⁶ by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: ⁷ but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by his word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.