Proverbs 21:12

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The righteous one considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked down to ruin.

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  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree. 36 Yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched for him, he could not be found.
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 You love evil more than good, and falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.
  • Ps 107:43 : 43 Let whoever is wise heed these things and consider the lovingkindness of the LORD.
  • Prov 11:3-5 : 3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them. 4 Riches do not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. 5 The righteousness of the blameless makes their path straight, but the wicked fall because of their own wickedness.
  • Prov 13:6 : 6 Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
  • Prov 14:11 : 11 The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked are brought down by their own evil, but the righteous take refuge when they die.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols? I will answer him and care for him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from me.
  • Amos 4:11 : 11 I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a firebrand snatched from the burning, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.
  • Hab 2:9-9 : 9 Woe to the one who gains unjust wealth for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of calamity! 10 You have planned disgrace for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your own life. 11 For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the wooden beam will answer it. 12 Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town with injustice!
  • 1 Cor 10:5 : 5 But God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
  • 2 Pet 2:4-9 : 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned but cast them into hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment, 5 and if He did not spare the ancient world but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, along with seven others when He brought the flood on the ungodly world, 6 and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly, 7 and if He rescued righteous Lot, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless, 8 (For that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard.) 9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
  • 2 Pet 3:6-7 : 6 Through these, the world of that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. 7 But by the same word, the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and the destruction of ungodly people.
  • Gen 19:29 : 29 So it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and brought Lot out from the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
  • Job 5:3 : 3 I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his home.
  • Job 8:15 : 15 They lean on their house, but it does not stand; they grasp it, but it does not hold firm.
  • Job 18:14-21 : 14 He is uprooted from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors. 15 What does not belong to him will dwell in his tent; burning sulfur will be scattered over his dwelling. 16 His roots below will dry up, and his branches above will wither. 17 His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the public square. 18 He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world. 19 He has no offspring or posterity among his people, nor any survivor where he once lived. 20 Those who come after are appalled at his fate, and those before are seized with horror. 21 Surely these are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of one who does not know God.
  • Job 21:28-30 : 28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the noble? Where is the tent of the dwellings of the wicked? 29 Have you not asked those who travel the road, and did you not recognize their testimonies? 30 That the wicked are spared in the day of calamity, that they are brought forth in the day of wrath?
  • Job 27:13-23 : 13 This is the portion allocated by God to a wicked man, the inheritance ruthless men will receive from the Almighty: 14 If his children multiply, it is for the sword, and his offspring will not have enough bread. 15 His survivors will be buried in death, and his widows will not weep for them. 16 Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up clothes like clay, 17 he may prepare it, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide his silver. 18 He builds his house like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman. 19 The rich man lies down, but he will not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more. 20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a storm sweeps him away. 21 The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. 22 It hurls itself against him without mercy; he flees desperately from its power. 23 It claps its hands at him and hisses at him as he is driven away from his place.

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