Proverbs 21:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be 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 the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
• Prov 21:12 : 12 The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
• Eccl 3:12 : 12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
• Isa 64:5 : 5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall 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 offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
• Luke 13:27-28 : 27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. 28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
• John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish 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, and the fatherless, and him 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 judgment 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 poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. 17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
• Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight{H8804)} to do{H8800)} thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
• Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, 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 delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
• Prov 5:20 : 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?