Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

The Righteous One is acting wisely Towards the house of the wicked, He is overthrowing the wicked for wickedness.

New American Standard Bible

The righteous one considers the house of the wicked,
Turning the wicked to ruin.

King James Version

The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

Holman Bible

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked;
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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
צדּיק 
Tsaddiyq 
Usage: 206

the house
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

of the wicked
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

סלף 
Calaph 
Usage: 7

the wicked
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

Verse Info

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

11 When the scorner is punished, the simple becometh wise, And in giving understanding to the wise He receiveth knowledge. 12 The Righteous One is acting wisely Towards the house of the wicked, He is overthrowing the wicked for wickedness. 13 Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.

Cross References

Psalm 37:35-36

I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,

Genesis 19:29

And it cometh to pass, in God's destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembereth Abraham, and sendeth Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt.

Job 5:3

I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

Job 8:15

He leaneth on his house -- and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it -- and it abideth not.

Job 18:14-21

Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.

Job 21:28-30

For ye say, 'Where is the house of the noble? And where the tent -- The tabernacles of the wicked?'

Job 27:13-23

This is the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.

Psalm 52:5

Also -- God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.

Psalm 107:43

Who is wise, and observeth these? They understand the kind acts of Jehovah!

Proverbs 11:3-5

The integrity of the upright leadeth them, And the perverseness of the treacherous destroyeth them.

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness keepeth him who is perfect in the way, And wickedness overthroweth a sin offering.

Proverbs 14:11

The house of the wicked is destroyed, And the tent of the upright flourisheth.

Proverbs 14:32

In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death is the righteous.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!

Amos 4:11

I have overturned among you, Like the overturn by God of Sodom and Gomorrah, And ye are as a brand delivered from a burning, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Habakkuk 2:9-12

Woe to him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,

1 Corinthians 10:5

but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,

2 Peter 2:4-9

For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus, did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved,

2 Peter 3:6-7

through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed;

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