Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
To do justice is joy to the righteous, But ruin to 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.
A Conservative Version
It is joy to the righteous to do justice, but it is a destruction to the workers of 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.
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 pacifieth anger, And a bribe in the bosom strong fury. 15 To do justice is joy to the righteous, But ruin to workers of iniquity. 16 A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, In an assembly of Rephaim resteth.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:29
The way of Jehovah is strength to the perfect, And ruin to workers of iniquity.
Job 29:12-17
For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.
Psalm 40:8
To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law is within my heart.
Psalm 112:1
Praise ye Jah! O the happiness of one fearing Jehovah, In His commands he hath delighted greatly.
Psalm 119:16
In Thy statutes I delight myself, I do not forget Thy word.
Psalm 119:92
Unless Thy law were my delights, Then had I perished in mine affliction.
Proverbs 5:20
And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
Proverbs 21:12
The Righteous One is acting wisely Towards the house of the wicked, He is overthrowing the wicked for wickedness.
Ecclesiastes 3:12
I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,
Isaiah 64:5
Thou hast met with the rejoicer And the doer of righteousness, In Thy ways they remember Thee, Lo, Thou hast been wroth when we sin, By them is continuance, and we are saved.
Matthew 7:23
and then I will acknowledge to them, that -- I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.
Matthew 13:41-42
the Son of Man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather up out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing the unlawlessness,
Luke 13:27-28
and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of the unrighteousness.
John 4:34
Jesus saith to them, 'My food is, that I may 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 inward man,