Verse 12

The righteous man wisely considers the house of the wicked, but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.

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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 indeed, he was no more; yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 God shall likewise destroy you forever, He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
  • Ps 107:43 : 43 Whoever 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 crookedness of transgressors shall destroy them. 4 Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. 5 The righteousness of the blameless shall direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
  • Prov 13:6 : 6 Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, 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 banished in his wickedness, but the righteous has 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 you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.
  • Hab 2:9-9 : 9 Woe to him who covets 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 You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul. 11 For the stone shall cry out from the wall, and the beam from the timber shall answer it. 12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes 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 did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; 5 And did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemning them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; 7 And delivered righteous Lot, who was distressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked: 8 For that righteous man, dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds. 9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment;
  • 2 Pet 3:6-7 : 6 By which the world that then existed, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved for 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 middle of the upheaval, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
  • Job 5:3 : 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.
  • 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.
  • Job 18:14-21 : 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. 16 His roots shall be dried up below, and above his branch shall be cut off. 17 His memory 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 descendant among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. 20 Those who come after him shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were terrified. 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him who does not know God.
  • Job 21:28-30 : 28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? And where are the dwelling places of the wicked?' 29 Have you not asked those who travel the road? And do you not know their signs? 30 That the wicked is reserved for 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 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.