Proverbs 21:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׂמְחָ֣ה לַ֭צַּדִּיק עֲשׂ֣וֹת מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּ֝מְחִתָּ֗ה לְפֹ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן

Transliteration

śimḥāh to-ṣaddîq ʿăśôt mišpāṭ and-mĕḥittāh to-pōʿălê ʾāwen

Grammar Details

• *śimḥāh*: feminine singular noun - joy
• *ṣaddîq*: masculine singular adjective - righteous one
• *ʿăśôt*: qal infinitive construct - to do
• *mišpāṭ*: masculine singular noun - justice
• *mĕḥittāh*: feminine singular noun - ruin/terror
• *pōʿălê*: masculine plural construct - doers of
• *ʾāwen*: masculine singular noun - wickedness/iniquity

Word Meanings

• *śimḥāh*: joy/gladness/happiness
• *ṣaddîq*: righteous one/just person
• *mišpāṭ*: justice/judgment/what is right
• *mĕḥittāh*: ruin/terror/destruction
• *pōʿălê*: doers/workers/practitioners
• *ʾāwen*: wickedness/iniquity/evil

Referenced Verses

• Prov 10:29 : 29 The way of Jehovah is a stronghold to the upright; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
• Prov 21:12 : 12 The righteous man considereth the house of the wicked, [How] the wicked are overthrown to [their] ruin.
• Eccl 3:12 : 12 I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.
• Isa 64:5 : 5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we be saved?
• Matt 7:23 : 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
• Matt 13:41-42 : 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and them that do iniquity, 42 and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
• Luke 13:27-28 : 27 and he shall say, I tell you, I know {G5209} not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. 28 There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and yourselves cast forth without.
• John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.
• Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
• Job 29:12-17 : 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame. 16 I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out. 17 And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
• Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.
• Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise ye Jehovah. Blessed is the man that feareth Jehovah, That delighteth greatly in his commandments.
• Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
• Ps 119:92 : 92 Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
• Prov 5:20 : 20 For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?