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 the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
• Prov 14:11The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
• 2 Pet 3:6–7Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
• Ps 107:43Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
• Hos 14:9Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
• 2 Pet 2:4–9For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
• Prov 11:3–5The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
• Amos 4:11I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
• Prov 14:32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
• 1 Cor 10:5But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
• Job 5:3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
• Job 8:15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
• Ps 52:5God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
• Gen 19:29And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
• Hab 2:9–12Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
• Job 18:14–21His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
• Job 21:28–30For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
• Prov 13:6Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
• Job 27:13–23This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

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