Proverbs 21:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ The righteous [man] wisely considereth the house of the wicked: [but God] overthroweth the wicked for [their] wickedness.

📖 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 bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
• Ps 52:5 : 5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
• Ps 107:43 : 43 Whoso [is] wise, and will observe these [things], even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
• Prov 11:3-5 : 3 ¶ The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors 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 keepeth [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 tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
• Prov 14:32 : 32 ¶ The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
• Hos 14:9 : 9 Who [is] wise, and he shall understand these [things]? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD [are] right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
• Amos 4:11 : 11 I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
• Hab 2:9-9 : 9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! 10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, 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 stablisheth a city by iniquity!
• 1 Cor 10:5 : 5 But with many 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 the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to hell, and delivered [them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth [person], a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned [them] with an overthrow, making [them] an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 7 ¶ And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation 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] unlawful deeds;) 9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
• 2 Pet 3:6-7 : 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition 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 the 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 it fast, but it shall not endure.
• Job 18:14-21 : 14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. 15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it 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 neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. 20 They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. 21 Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, 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 [are] the dwelling places of the wicked? 29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought 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 shall receive of 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 not weep. 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 a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh. 19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not. 20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. 21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place. 22 For [God] shall cast upon 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.