Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.
New American Standard Bible
But He will
King James Version
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Holman Bible
but He protects the widow’s territory.
International Standard Version
The house of the proud the LORD will demolish, but he will protect the widow's boundary line.
A Conservative Version
LORD will root up the house of the proud, but he will establish the border of the widow.
Amplified
The Lord will tear down the house of the proud and arrogant (self-righteous),
But He will establish and protect the boundaries [of the land] of the [godly] widow.
Bible in Basic English
The house of the man of pride will be uprooted by the Lord, but he will make safe the heritage of the widow.
Darby Translation
Jehovah plucketh up the house of the proud; but he establisheth the boundary of the widow.
Julia Smith Translation
The house of the proud will Jehovah sweep away, and he will set up the bound of the widow.
King James 2000
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the boundary of the widow.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The house of the proud, Yahweh will tear [it] down, but he will maintain the {property line} of the widow.
Modern King James verseion
Jehovah will destroy the house of the proud, but He will set up the border of the widow.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The LORD will break down the house of the proud; but he shall make fast the borders of the widow.
NET Bible
The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he maintains the boundaries of the widow.
New Heart English Bible
The LORD will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow's borders intact.
The Emphasized Bible
The house of proud men, will Yahweh tear down, but he will maintain the boundary of the widow.
Webster
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
World English Bible
Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow's borders intact.
Youngs Literal Translation
The house of the proud Jehovah pulleth down, And He setteth up the border of the widow.
Themes
Abasement » Of the proud foretold
God's Promises » To the widow and fatherless » God's care for
Topics
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 15:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Wise Son Brings Blessings To Others
24 To the wise the way of life goeth upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath. 25 Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow. 26 Evil devices are an abomination to Jehovah; But pleasant words are pure.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 146:9
Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Proverbs 12:7
The wicked are overthrown, and are not; But the house of the righteous shall stand.
Psalm 68:5-6
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.
Proverbs 14:11
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; But the tent of the upright shall flourish.
Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Deuteronomy 10:17-18
For Jehovah your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.
Deuteronomy 19:14
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Job 40:11-13
Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger; And look upon every one that is proud, and abase him.
Psalm 52:1
Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of God endureth continually.
Psalm 52:5
God will likewise destroy 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
Psalm 138:6
For though Jehovah is high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly; But the haughty he knoweth from afar.
Isaiah 2:12
For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low;
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.