Proverbs 21:12

The Righteous One observes the wicked and brings them to ruin. It matters because God sees and judges the household of the wicked.

Cross-references · 19

• Ps 37:35–36I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
• Prov 14:11The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
• 2 Pet 3:6–7through which the world of that time perished in the flood.
• Ps 107:43Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.
• Hos 14:9Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.
• 2 Pet 2:4–9For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
• Prov 11:3–5The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.
• Amos 4:11“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
• Prov 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
• 1 Cor 10:5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
• Job 5:3I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
• Job 8:15He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.
• Ps 52:5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
• Gen 19:29So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
• Hab 2:9–12Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
• Job 18:14–21He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
• Job 21:28–30For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
• Prov 13:6Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness undermines the sinner.
• Job 27:13–23This is the wicked man’s portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

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