Proverbs 21:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

📖 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 evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree. 36 But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.
• Ps 52:5 : 5 But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)
• Ps 107:43 : 43 Let the wise give thought to these things, and see the mercies of the Lord.
• Prov 11:3-5 : 3 The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction. 4 Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death. 5 The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.
• Prov 13:6 : 6 Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.
• Prov 14:11 : 11 The house of the sinner will be overturned, but the tent of the upright man will do well.
• Prov 14:32 : 32 The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.
• Hos 14:9 : 9 As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.
• Amos 4:11 : 11 And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
• Hab 2:9-9 : 9 A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer! 10 You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul. 11 For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork. 12 A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!
• 1 Cor 10:5 : 5 But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.
• 2 Pet 2:4-9 : 4 For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged; 5 And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers; 6 And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him; 7 And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers 8 (Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes): 9 The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;
• 2 Pet 3:6-7 : 6 And that the world which then was came to an end through the overflowing of the waters. 7 But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.
• Gen 19:29 : 29 So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.
• Job 5:3 : 3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.
• Job 8:15 : 15 He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.
• Job 18:14-21 : 14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears. 15 In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house. 16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off. 17 His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name. 18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world. 19 He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name. 20 At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear. 21 Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.
• Job 21:28-30 : 28 For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer? 29 Have you not put the question to the travellers, and do you not take note of their experience? 30 How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?
• Job 27:13-23 : 13 This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all. 14 If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread. 15 When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them. 16 Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing; 17 He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage. 18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent. 19 He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer. 20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away. 21 The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place. 22 God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand. 23 Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.