Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
A righteous man considers the house of the wicked: the wicked are overthrown to ruin.
New American Standard Bible
Turning the
King James Version
The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
Holman Bible
He brings the wicked to ruin.
International Standard Version
The righteous God considers the house of the wicked, bringing the wicked to ruin.
American Standard Version
The righteous man considereth the house of the wicked, How the wicked are overthrown to their ruin.
Amplified
The righteous one keeps an eye on the house of the wicked—
How the wicked are cast down to ruin.
Bible in Basic English
The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.
Darby Translation
One that is righteous wisely considereth the house of the wicked: he overthroweth the wicked to their ruin.
Julia Smith Translation
The just one being circumspect for the house of the unjust one: overthrowing the unjust for evil.
King James 2000
The righteous man wisely considers the house of the wicked: but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The righteous observes the house of the wicked; he throws the wicked to ruin.
Modern King James verseion
The righteous wisely considers the house of the wicked; but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked; and for their wickedness, God overthroweth the ungodly.
NET Bible
The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he overthrows the wicked to their ruin.
New Heart English Bible
The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.
The Emphasized Bible
The Righteous One observeth the house of the lawless, - He is ready to cast down lawless men into misfortune.
Webster
The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
World English Bible
The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.
Youngs Literal Translation
The Righteous One is acting wisely Towards the house of the wicked, He is overthrowing the wicked for wickedness.
Interlinear
Sakal
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 21:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
11 When a scoffer is punished, a simple man is made wise, and when a wise man is instructed, he receives knowledge. 12 A righteous man considers the house of the wicked: the wicked are overthrown to ruin. 13 He who stops his ears at the cry of a poor man, he also shall cry, but shall not be heard.
Cross References
Psalm 37:35-36
I have seen a wicked man in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Genesis 19:29
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.
Job 5:3
I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Job 8:15
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand. He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
Job 18:14-21
He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts, and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
Job 21:28-30
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?
Job 27:13-23
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
Psalm 52:5
God will likewise destroy thee forever. He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalm 107:43
He who is wise will give heed to these things, and they will consider the loving kindnesses of LORD.
Proverbs 11:3-5
The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
Proverbs 13:6
Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Proverbs 14:11
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown, but the tent of the upright shall flourish.
Proverbs 14:32
An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.
Amos 4:11
I have overthrown [cities] among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning. Yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD.
Habakkuk 2:9-12
Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
1 Corinthians 10:5
However with most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness.
2 Peter 2:4-9
For if God did not spare heavenly agents who sinned, but delivered them up to chains of darkness, having been cast into hell being reserved for judgment,
2 Peter 3:6-7
by which the world then perished, having been overflowed with water.