Proverbs 21:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, And brings the wicked to ruin.

📖 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, Spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. 36 But he passed away, and, behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
• Ps 52:5 : 5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, And root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
• Ps 107:43 : 43 Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
• Prov 11:3-5 : 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them, But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them. 4 Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness delivers from death. 5 The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, But the wicked shall fall by his 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 overthrown, But the tent of the upright will flourish.
• Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is brought down in his calamity, But in death, the righteous has a refuge.
• Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, And the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
• Amos 4:11 : 11 "I have overthrown some of you, As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; Yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
• Hab 2:9-9 : 9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! 10 You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul. 11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it. 12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
• 1 Cor 10:5 : 5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
• 2 Pet 2:4-9 : 4 For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus{Tartarus is another name for Hell}, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; 5 and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly; 7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked 8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds): 9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
• 2 Pet 3:6-7 : 6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. 7 But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
• Gen 19:29 : 29 It happened, 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 which Lot lived.
• Job 5:3 : 3 I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
• Job 8:15 : 15 He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
• Job 18:14-21 : 14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors. 15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation. 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off. 17 His memory shall perish from the earth. 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 have neither son nor grandson among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned. 20 Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, As those who went before were frightened. 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, This is the place of him who doesn't know God."
• Job 21:28-30 : 28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?' 29 Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences, 30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
• Job 27:13-23 : 13 "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, The heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty. 14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation. 16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare clothing as the clay; 17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver. 18 He builds his house as the moth, As a booth which the watchman makes. 19 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not. 20 Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night. 21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs; It sweeps him out of his place. 22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, As he flees away from his hand. 23 Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.