Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
The Righteous One observeth the house of the lawless, - He is ready to cast down lawless men into misfortune.
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.
A Conservative Version
A righteous man considers the house of the wicked: the wicked are overthrown 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.
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 the scoffer is punished, the simple, becometh wise, when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge. 12 The Righteous One observeth the house of the lawless, - He is ready to cast down lawless men into misfortune. 13 He that shutteth his ear from the cry of the poor, even he, shall call, and not be answered.
Cross References
Psalm 37:35-36
I have seen a lawless man, a tyrant, and spreading himself out, like a cedar in Lebanon;
Genesis 19:29
And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the circuit, that God remembered Abraham, and sent forth Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities wherein Lot had dwelt.
Job 5:3
I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment:
Job 8:15
He leaneth upon his house, and it will not stand, he holdeth it fast, and it will not remain erect.
Job 18:14-21
Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors;
Job 21:28-30
For ye say, Where is the house of the noble-minded? And where the dwelling-tent of the lawless?
Job 27:13-23
This, is the portion of a lawless man with GOD, That, the heritage of tyrants - from the Almighty, he shall receive.
Psalm 52:5
GOD also, will break thee down utterly, He will snatch thee up and tear thee away tentless, And uproot thee, out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalm 107:43
Who is wise? then let him observe these things! and diligently consider the lovingkindness of Yahweh.
Proverbs 11:3-5
The integrity of the upright, shall guide them, but, the crookedness of the treacherous, shall be their ruin.
Proverbs 13:6
Righteousness, guardeth the man of blameless way, but, lawlessness, overthroweth the sinner.
Proverbs 14:11
The house of the lawless, shall be destroyed, but, the tent of the upright, shall flourish.
Proverbs 14:32
By his own wickedness, shall the lawless man, be thrust down, but the righteous, seeketh refuge in his integrity.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? intelligent, that he may take knowledge of them? For, straightforward, are the ways of Yahweh, and, the righteous, shall travel therein, but, transgressors, shall stumble therein.
Amos 4:11
I have made an overthrew among you, like the divine overthrow of Sodom arid Gomorrah, and ye have become like a brand snatched out of the burning, - Yet hate ye not returned unto me, Declareth Yahweh.
Habakkuk 2:9-12
Alas! for him who extorteth an extortion of wrong for his own house, - that he may set on high his nest, that he may be delivered from the grasp of calamity.
1 Corinthians 10:5
Nevertheless, with the most of them, God, was not well-pleased, for they were strewed along in the desert.
2 Peter 2:4-9
For - if, God, spared not, messengers, when they sinned, but, to pits of gloom, consigning them, in the lowest hades, delivered them up to be kept, unto judgment, -
2 Peter 3:6-7
By which means, the world that then was, with water being flooded, perished;