Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked; and for their wickedness, God overthroweth the ungodly.
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.
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 scornful is punished, the ignorant take the better heed; and when a wise man is warned, he will receive the more understanding. 12 The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked; and for their wickedness, God overthroweth the ungodly. 13 Whoso stoppeth his ear at the crying of the poor; he shall cry himself and not be heard.
Cross References
Psalm 37:35-36
I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree.
Genesis 19:29
But yet when God destroyed the cities of the region, he thought upon Abraham: and sent Lot out from the danger of the overthrowing, when he overthrew the cities where Lot dwelled.
Job 5:3
I have seen myself, when the foolish was deep rooted, that his beauty was suddenly destroyed,
Job 8:15
He leaneth him upon his house, but he shall not stand; he holdeth him fast by it, yet shall he not endure.
Job 18:14-21
All his comfort and hope shall be rooted out of his dwelling, and shall bring him unto the king of fear.
Job 21:28-30
For ye say, 'Where is the prince's palace? Where is the dwelling of the ungodly?
Job 27:13-23
saying, 'This is that portion that the wicked shall have of God, and the heritage that Tyrants shall receive of the Almighty'?
Psalm 52:5
Therefore shall God destroy thee forever; he shall take thee, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalm 107:43
Whoso is wise, and pondereth these things well, shall understand the loving-kindness of the LORD.
Proverbs 11:3-5
The innocent dealing of the just shall lead them; but the unfaithfulness of the despisers shall be their own destruction.
Proverbs 13:6
Righteousness keepeth the innocent in the way; but ungodliness shall overthrow the sinner.
Proverbs 14:11
The houses of the ungodly shall be overthrown; but the tabernacles of the righteous shall flourish.
Proverbs 14:32
The ungodly is afraid of every peril; but the righteous hath a good hope even in death.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise to understand these things and hath wit to perceive them? For the ways of the LORD are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them: but the wicked shall tumble in them.
Amos 4:11
'Some of you have I overthrown as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah: so that ye were as a brand plucked out of the fire. Yet will ye not turn unto me,' sayeth the LORD.
Habakkuk 2:9-12
Woe unto him, that covetously gathereth evil gotten goods into his house: that he may set his nest on high, to escape from the power of misfortune.
1 Corinthians 10:5
But in many of them had God no delight. For they were overthrown in the wilderness.
2 Peter 2:4-9
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down into hell, and delivered them in chains of darkness, to be kept unto judgement;
2 Peter 3:6-7
by the which things the world that then was perished, overflowen with the water.