Proverbs 21:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The righteous man considereth the house of the wicked, [How] the wicked are overthrown to [their] ruin.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מַשְׂכִּ֣יל צַ֭דִּיק לְבֵ֣ית רָשָׁ֑ע מְסַלֵּ֖ף רְשָׁעִ֣ים לָרָֽע

Transliteration

maśkîl ṣaddîq to-bêt rāšāʿ mĕsallēp̄ rĕšāʿîm to-rāʿ

Grammar Details

• *maśkîl*: hiphil participle masculine singular - considering/giving attention
• *ṣaddîq*: masculine singular adjective - righteous one
• *bêt*: construct singular noun - house of
• *rāšāʿ*: masculine singular noun - wicked person
• *mĕsallēp̄*: piel participle masculine singular - overthrowing/perverting
• *rĕšāʿîm*: masculine plural noun - wicked ones
• *rāʿ*: masculine singular noun/adjective - evil/calamity

Word Meanings

• *maśkîl*: considering/paying attention/being wise toward
• *ṣaddîq*: righteous one/just person
• *bêt*: house/household
• *rāšāʿ*: wicked person/evildoer
• *mĕsallēp̄*: overthrowing/perverting/bringing down
• *rĕšāʿîm*: wicked ones/evil persons
• *rāʿ*: evil/harm/calamity/disaster

Referenced Verses

• Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. 36 But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
• Ps 52:5 : 5 God will likewise destroy thee for ever; He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land of the living. {H5542}
• Ps 107:43 : 43 Whoso is wise will give heed to these things; And they will consider the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah.
• Prov 11:3-5 : 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them; But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them. 4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivereth from death. 5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way; But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
• Prov 13:6 : 6 Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
• Prov 14:11 : 11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; But the tent of the upright shall flourish.
• Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
• Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.
• Amos 4:11 : 11 I have overthrown [cities] among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
• Hab 2:9-9 : 9 Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! 10 Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul. 11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. 12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!
• 1 Cor 10:5 : 5 Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
• 2 Pet 2:4-9 : 4 For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly; 7 and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked 8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day with [their] lawless deeds): 9 the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;
• 2 Pet 3:6-7 : 6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
• Gen 19:29 : 29 And 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 which Lot dwelt.
• Job 5:3 : 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
• 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.
• Job 18:14-21 : 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. 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off. 17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street. 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world. 19 He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned. 20 They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted. 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
• Job 21:28-30 : 28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt? 29 Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences, 30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
• 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.