Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Jehovah will destroy the house of the proud, but He will set up 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.
American Standard Version
Jehovah 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 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 The way of life is above to the wise, so that he may turn away from hell below. 25 Jehovah will destroy the house of the proud, but He will set up the border of the widow. 26 The thoughts of the wicked are very hateful to Jehovah, but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 146:9
Jehovah preserves the strangers; He relieves the orphan and widow, but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.
Proverbs 12:7
The wicked are overthrown, and are gone; but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Psalm 68:5-6
In His holy dwelling God is the father of the fatherless, and the judge of the widows.
Proverbs 14:11
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown, but the tent of the upright shall be blessed.
Proverbs 23:10
Do not remove the old landmarks, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless;
Deuteronomy 10:17-18
For Jehovah your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, the mighty, and a terrible God, who does not respect persons nor take a bribe.
Deuteronomy 19:14
You may not remove your neighbor's landmark, which those in the past have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land which Jehovah your God gives you to possess it.
Job 40:11-13
Pour forth the rage of your wrath; and behold everyone who is proud, and abase him.
Psalm 52:1
To the Chief Musician. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in evil, O mighty man? The mercy of God endures forever.
Psalm 52:5
God will likewise destroy you forever; He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalm 138:6
Though Jehovah is high, yet He has respect to the lowly; but the proud He knows afar off.
Isaiah 2:12
For the day of Jehovah of Hosts shall be on every proud and lofty one, and on every lifted up one; and he shall be brought low,
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was put down from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, younger ones, be subject to older ones, and all being subject to one another. Put on humility. For God resists proud ones, but He gives grace to the humble.