Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
The just one being circumspect for the house of the unjust one: overthrowing the unjust for evil.
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.
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 In punishing him mocking, the simple shall become wise: and in instruction to the wise one he will take knowledge. 12 The just one being circumspect for the house of the unjust one: overthrowing the unjust for evil. 13 He stopping his ear from the cry of the poor one also himself shall call and shall not be answered.
Cross References
Psalm 37:35-36
I saw the unjust one making afraid, and spreading abroad as a green native tree.
Genesis 19:29
And it shall be in God's destroying the cities of the circuit, and God will remember Abraham, and he will send forth Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in overthrowing the cities in which Lot dwelt in them.
Job 5:3
I saw the foolish one taking root, and suddenly I shall curse his habitation.
Job 8:15
He shall lean upon his house and it shall not stand: he shall hold fast upon it, and it shall not rise up.
Job 18:14-21
His confidence shall be plucked out from his tent, and it shall drive him to the king of terrors.
Job 21:28-30
For ye will say, Where the house of the noble one; and where the tent of the dwellings of the unjust?
Job 27:13-23
This the portion of an unjust man with God, and the inheritance of the terrible they shall take from the Almighty.
Psalm 52:5
Also God will break thee down forever; he will take thee and sweep thee away from the tent, and root thee up from the land of the living. Silence.
Psalm 107:43
Who the wise and will watch these, and they shall understand the mercies of Jehovah.
Proverbs 11:3-5
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: and the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Proverbs 13:6
Justice will guard the blameless of way: and injustice shall overthrow the sinning.
Proverbs 14:11
The house of the unjust shall be destroyed: and the tent of the upright shall flourish.
Proverbs 14:32
The unjust one shall be driven away in his evil: and the just one trusted in his death.
Hosea 14:9
Who being wise, and he shall understand these things? and knowing, and he shall know them? for the ways of Jehovah are straight, and the just shall go in them: and they transgressing shall be weak in them.
Amos 4:11
I overthrew among you as God overthrows Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye shall be as a fire-brand snatched from the burning: and ye turned not back even to me, says Jehovah.
Habakkuk 2:9-12
Wo! to him plundering an evil plunder to his house, to set his nest on high, to deliver from the hand of evil.
1 Corinthians 10:5
But God was not contented with the most of them: for they were overthrown in the desert.
2 Peter 2:4-9
For if God spared not the angels having sinned, but delivered up, hurled into Tartarus, to cords of darkness, having been kept for judgment;
2 Peter 3:6-7
By which then the world, overflowed with water, perished: