Verse 11

The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 8:15 : 15 He shall lean on his house, but it will not stand; he shall hold it fast, but it will not endure.
  • Prov 3:33 : 33 The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked: but he blesses the dwelling of the just.
  • Prov 12:7 : 7 The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.
  • Job 21:28 : 28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? And where are the dwelling places of the wicked?'
  • Ps 128:3 : 3 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house; your children like olive plants around your table.
  • Job 8:6 : 6 If you were pure and upright, surely now He would awaken for you, and make the dwelling of your righteousness prosperous.
  • Job 27:13-23 : 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive from the Almighty. 14 If his children multiply, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those who survive him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep. 16 Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares clothing as the clay; 17 He may prepare it, but the just shall wear it, and the innocent shall divide the silver. 18 He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a keeper makes. 19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more. 20 Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night. 21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs; and as a storm hurls him out of his place. 22 For God will hurl upon him, and not spare; he would gladly flee out of His hand. 23 Men shall clap their hands at him and shall hiss him out of his place.
  • Ps 112:2-3 : 2 His descendants shall be mighty upon the earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed. 3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house, and his righteousness shall endure forever.
  • Job 15:34 : 34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
  • Job 18:14-15 : 14 His confidence shall be uprooted from his dwelling, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. 15 It shall dwell in his tent, because it is no longer his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
  • Job 18:21 : 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him who does not know God.
  • Job 20:26-28 : 26 Total darkness is reserved for his treasures; a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with the one who remains in his tent. 27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. 28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of God's wrath.
  • Prov 21:12 : 12 The righteous man wisely considers the house of the wicked, but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.
  • Prov 21:20 : 20 There is desirable treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man spends it up.
  • Isa 58:11-12 : 11 And the LORD shall guide you continually and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. 12 And those from among you shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
  • Zech 5:4 : 4 I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with its timber and its stones.
  • Matt 7:26-27 : 26 And everyone who hears these sayings of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.
  • Prov 11:28 : 28 He who trusts in his riches shall fall, but the righteous shall flourish like a branch.