Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
It is joy to the righteous to do justice, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
New American Standard Bible
But is
King James Version
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Holman Bible
but a terror to those who practice iniquity.
International Standard Version
Administering justice brings joy to the righteous, but terror to those who practice iniquity.
American Standard Version
It is joy to the righteous to do justice; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
Amplified
When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous (the upright, the one in right standing with God),
But to the evildoers it is disaster.
Bible in Basic English
It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.
Darby Translation
It is joy to a righteous man to do what is right; but it is ruin for the workers of iniquity.
Julia Smith Translation
Joy to the just one to do judgment: and destruction to those working iniquity.
King James 2000
It is joy to the just to do justice: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[It is] a joy to the righteous to do justice, but dismay to those who do evil.
Modern King James verseion
It is joy to the just to do judgment, but ruin shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The just delighteth in doing the thing that is right, but the workers of wickedness abhor the same.
NET Bible
Doing justice brings joy to the righteous and terror to those who do evil.
New Heart English Bible
It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
The Emphasized Bible
It is a joy, to a righteous man, to do justice, but, dismay, to the workers of iniquity.
Webster
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
World English Bible
It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
Youngs Literal Translation
To do justice is joy to the righteous, But ruin to workers of iniquity.
Themes
Iniquity » The workers of iniquity
Joy » Experienced by » The just
Topics
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 21:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
14 A gift in secret pacifies anger, and a present in the bosom, strong wrath. 15 It is joy to the righteous to do justice, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity. 16 The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:29
The way of LORD is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
Job 29:12-17
Because I delivered the poor who cried, also the fatherless who had none to help him.
Psalm 40:8
I delight to do thy will, O my God. Yea, thy law is within my heart.
Psalm 112:1
Praise ye LORD. Blessed is the man who fears LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments.
Psalm 119:16
I will delight myself in thy statutes. I will not forget thy word.
Psalm 119:92
Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in my affliction.
Proverbs 5:20
For why should thou, my son, be ravished with an interloping woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Proverbs 21:12
A righteous man considers the house of the wicked: the wicked are overthrown to ruin.
Ecclesiastes 3:12
I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.
Isaiah 64:5
Thou meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou were angry, and we sinned. Therefore we have erred.
Matthew 7:23
And then I will profess to them, I never acknowledged you. Depart from me, ye who work lawlessness.
Matthew 13:41-42
The Son of man will send forth his agents, and they will gather out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing lawlessness,
Luke 13:27-28
And he will say, I tell you, I know not where ye are from. Depart from me, all ye workmen of unrighteousness.
John 4:34
Jesus says to them, My food is that I do the will of him who sent me, and may finish his work.
Romans 7:22
For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,