Proverbs 14:11

American Standard Version (1901)

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; But the tent of the upright shall flourish.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֵּ֣ית רְ֭שָׁעִים יִשָּׁמֵ֑ד וְאֹ֖הֶל יְשָׁרִ֣ים יַפְרִֽיחַ׃

Transliteration

bêt rəšāʿîm yiššāmēd wə-ʾōhel yəšārîm yapriăḥ

Grammar Details

• *bêt*: masculine singular construct - house of
• *rəšāʿîm*: masculine plural noun - wicked ones
• *yiššāmēd*: 3rd person masculine singular Niphal imperfect - it will be destroyed
• *wə-ʾōhel*: conjunction + masculine singular construct - and tent of
• *yəšārîm*: masculine plural adjective - upright ones
• *yapriăḥ*: 3rd person masculine singular Hiphil imperfect - it will flourish

Word Meanings

• *bêt*: house/home/dwelling
• *rəšāʿîm*: wicked ones/evil ones/criminals
• *yiššāmēd*: will be destroyed/will be laid waste/will be desolate
• *ʾōhel*: tent/dwelling/tabernacle
• *yəšārîm*: upright ones/righteous ones/honest ones
• *yapriăḥ*: will flourish/will blossom/will sprout

Referenced Verses

• Job 8:15 : 15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
• Prov 3:33 : 33 The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked; But he blesseth the habitation of the righteous.
• Prov 12:7 : 7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not; But the house of the righteous shall stand.
• Job 21:28 : 28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?
• Ps 128:3 : 3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.
• Job 8:6 : 6 If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
• Job 27:13-23 : 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty: 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation. 16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay; 17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver. 18 He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh. 19 He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers] ; He openeth his eyes, and he is not. 20 Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night. 21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place. 22 For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand. 23 Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.
• Ps 112:2-3 : 2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: The generation of the upright shall be blessed. 3 Wealth and riches are in his house; And his righteousness endureth for ever.
• Job 15:34 : 34 For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
• Job 18:14-15 : 14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors. 15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
• Job 18:21 : 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
• Job 20:26-28 : 26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown [by man] shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent. 27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him. 28 The increase of his house shall depart; [His goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
• Prov 21:12 : 12 The righteous man considereth the house of the wicked, [How] the wicked are overthrown to [their] ruin.
• Prov 21:20 : 20 There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; But a foolish man swalloweth it up.
• Isa 58:11-12 : 11 and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in dry places, and make strong thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. 12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
• Zech 5:4 : 4 I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
• Matt 7:26-27 : 26 And every one that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: 27 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.
• Prov 11:28 : 28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; But the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.