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, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
• Prov 14:11The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
• 2 Pet 3:6–7by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
• Ps 107:43Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
• Hos 14:9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
• 2 Pet 2:4–9For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
• Prov 11:3–5The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
• Amos 4:11“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
• Prov 14:32The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
• 1 Cor 10:5However with most 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 on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
• Ps 52:5God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
• Gen 19:29When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
• Hab 2:9–12Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
• Job 18:14–21He shall be rooted out of the security of his tent. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
• Job 21:28–30For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
• Prov 13:6Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
• Job 27:13–23“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

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