Proverbs 21:15 Cross References - LEB

¹⁵ It is a joy to the righteous to do justice, but dismay to those who do evil.

¹² because I saved the needy who cried for help, and I saved* the orphan for whom there was no helper. ¹³ The blessing of the wretched came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a headband. ¹⁵ "I was eyes to the blind, and I was feet to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to the poor, and I investigated _⌊the stranger's_⌋* legal dispute. ¹⁷ And I broke the evil one's jaw bones, and I made his prey drop from his teeth.

⁸ 'I delight to do your will, O my God, and your law is _⌊deep within me_⌋.'"*

¹ Praise Yah!* Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh; he takes great delight in his commands.

¹⁶ I will take delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.

⁹² Unless your law had been my delight, then I would have perished in my misery.

²⁰ Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

²⁹ A stronghold for the upright is the way of Yahweh, but ruin belongs to _⌊evildoers_⌋.*

¹² The righteous observes the house of the wicked; he throws the wicked to ruin.

¹² So I realized that there is _⌊nothing better_⌋* for them than to _⌊rejoice and enjoy themselves_⌋* during their lives.

⁵ You meet with the one who rejoices, one who does righteousness. In your ways they remember you. Look! You were angry and we sinned against them in ancient times and we were saved.

²³ And then _⌊I will say to them plainly_⌋,* 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness!'

⁴¹ The Son of Man will send out his angels and they will gather out of his kingdom all the causes of sin and those who do lawless deeds, ⁴² and throw them into the fiery furnace.* In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!

²⁷ And he will reply, saying to you, 'I do not know where you are from! Go away from me, all you _⌊evildoers_⌋!'* ²⁸ In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown outside!

³⁴ Jesus said to them, "My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me and complete his work.

²² For I joyfully agree with the law of God in my inner person,