Proverbs 21:12 Cross References - Thomson

¹² A just man discerneth the hearts of the wicked; and despiseth the wicked for their wickedness.

²⁹ But when God destroyed all the cities of that neighbourhood he remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out from that destruction. Now when the Lord had destroyed those cities in which Lot had dwelt,

³ Now I have seen the foolish taking root, but their sustenance was quickly consumed.

¹⁵ Though he prop up his house, it cannot stand: Though he take hold of it, it will not abide,

¹⁴ May health be expelled from his dwelling, and distress lay hold on him with the authority of a king. ¹⁵ It will make its abode in his tent; in his night all his finery will be strewed with sulphur. ¹⁶ Underneath his roots will be dried up; and above, his product will fall. ¹⁷ May the memorial of him be destroyed from the earth. ¹⁸ When his name shall be published abroad, may they drive him from light to darkness. ¹⁹ He will not be acknowledged among his people, nor will his household be safe under the cope of heaven. But in his possessions others shall live secure. ²⁰ They who came after groaned for him, but horror seized them who were before. ²¹ Such are the houses of the unrighteous, and such the place of them who know not the Lord.

²⁸ that you will say, Where is the house of the chief, and where is the covering of the tents of the wicked? ²⁹ Ask them who travel the high ways, or their monuments, you cannot miss them. ³⁰ Because the wicked is reserved for a day of destruction: let them be carried to prison for the day of his indignation.

¹³ "This is the portion of a wicked man from the Lord: and the possession of oppressors, which shall come to them from the Almighty. ¹⁴ If their children be many they shall be for slaughter; and if they grow up to men, they shall be beggars. ¹⁵ Those who are about him shall die by pestilence: and their widows none shall compassionate. ¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as dust; and store up gold as clay: ¹⁷ the righteous shall take charge of all these; and men of truth shall enjoy his wealth. ¹⁸ His house is gone like moths or like a cobweb. ¹⁹ He shall lie down rich but shall not continue so. He hath opened his eyes, and all is gone. ²⁰ Sorrows flowed in upon him like water. In a night a tempest swept him away. ²¹ A burning wind shall take him up and go he must. It shall blow him away out of his place. ²² He will dash upon him and will not spare. Should he by flight flee from his hand, ²³ he will cause them to clap their hands at him and will hiss him out of his place."

³⁵ I have seen the wicked highly exalted, towering aloft like the cedars of Lebanon. ³⁶ Again I passed by, and lo! he was gone. Though I sought him, his place could not be found.

⁵ For this cause God will utterly destroy thee; tear thee up and hurl thee from thy dwelling; even thy rooted stock out of the land of the living.

⁴³ Whosoever is wise and will observe these things, he will understand the mercies of the Lord.

³ A righteous man dying left sorrow behind him; but the destruction of the wicked cometh suddenly and giveth joy. ⁴ [Omitted] ⁵ Righteousness maketh spotless ways straight: but wickedness falleth by iniquity.

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¹¹ The houses of the wicked shall vanish; but the tents of the upright shall stand.

³² A wicked man shall be driven away by his wickedness; but in his sanctity the righteous is secure.

⁹ [p] Who is wise that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? Because the ways of the Lord are straight; therefore the righteous will walk in them: But in them the wicked shall be without strength.

¹¹ I overthrew you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorra; and you became like a brand plucked out of fire. Now as even for this you have not turned to me, saith the Lord,

⁹ Woe to him who coveteth wicked gain for his house, that he ¹⁰ may raise his nest high to be out of the reach of evils. Thou hast contrived shame for thy house; thou hast provoked many ¹¹ peoples and thy soul hath sinned; for a stone out of a wall will cry out, and a Worm from a beam will proclaim these things. ¹² Woe to him who buildeth a city with blood and furbisheth up a city with iniquities!

⁵ But with the greater part of them God was not well pleased; for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

⁴ For if God spared not angels who sinned, but confining them in Tartarus, chains of darkness, delivered them up to be kept for judgment ⁵ and if he spared not the old world, but preserved eight persons, including Noah, the proclaimer of righteousness, when he brought a deluge on the world of ungodly men ⁶ and when he condemned to destruction the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, reducing them to ashes, and making them a publick example to future impious men, ⁷ delivered just Lot, who was troubled at the lascivious conduct of those licentious men, ⁸ [for at the sight and report, that righteous man who dwelt among them was daily tormented in soul by their unlawful deeds] ⁹ the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from, temptation, and to reserve the wicked to the day of judgment, to be punished;

⁶ by which the world that then existed, being deluged, was destroyed; ⁷ but the heavens and the earth which now exist are, by the same word, treasured up for fire, being kept for the day of judgment, and destruction of these impious men.