Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
The righteous wisely considers the house of the wicked; but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.
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 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 the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise; and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge. 12 The righteous wisely considers the house of the wicked; but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness. 13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Cross References
Psalm 37:35-36
I have seen the wicked ruthless, and spreading himself like a luxuriant native tree.
Genesis 19:29
And when God destroyed the cities of the plain, it happened that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Job 5:3
I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.
Job 8:15
He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast to it, but it shall not endure.
Job 18:14-21
His hope shall be rooted out of his tent, and you marched to the king of terrors.
Job 21:28-30
For you say, Where is the house of the noble, and where the dwelling-places of the wicked?
Job 27:13-23
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of cruel men which they shall receive from the Almighty.
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 107:43
Whoever is wise, and will observe these things, they shall understand the mercies of Jehovah.
Proverbs 11:3-5
The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the crookedness of traitors shall destroy them.
Proverbs 13:6
Righteousness guards the perfect of way, but wickedness subverts a sin-offering.
Proverbs 14:11
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown, but the tent of the upright shall be blessed.
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? Understanding, and he shall know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but sinners shall fall in them.
Amos 4:11
I have overthrown some among you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked out of the burning; yet you have not returned to Me, says Jehovah.
Habakkuk 2:9-12
Woe to him who robs evil booty for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil!
1 Corinthians 10:5
But with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were scattered in the wilderness.
2 Peter 2:4-9
For if God did not spare sinning angels, but thrust them down into Tartarus, and delivered them into chains of darkness, being reserved to judgment.
2 Peter 3:6-7
through which the world that then was, being flooded by water, perished.