Verse 11

The household of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 8:15 : 15 He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.
  • Prov 3:33 : 33 The LORD’s curse is on the household of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.
  • Prov 12:7 : 7 The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the righteous household will stand.
  • Job 21:28 : 28 For you say,‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’
  • Ps 128:3 : 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table.
  • Job 8:6 : 6 if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous home.
  • Job 27:13-23 : 13 This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty. 14 If his children increase– it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat. 15 Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them. 16 If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay, 17 what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver. 18 The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made. 19 He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone. 20 Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off. 21 The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. 22 It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power. 23 It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.
  • Ps 112:2-3 : 2 His descendants will be powerful on the earth; the godly will be blessed. 3 His house contains wealth and riches; his integrity endures.
  • Job 15:34 : 34 For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.
  • Job 18:14-15 : 14 He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors. 15 Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.
  • Job 18:21 : 21 ‘Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.’”
  • Job 20:26-28 : 26 Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent. 27 The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him. 28 A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.
  • Prov 21:12 : 12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he overthrows the wicked to their ruin.
  • Prov 21:20 : 20 There is desirable treasure and olive oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish person devours all he has.
  • Isa 58:11-12 : 11 The LORD will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water. 12 Your perpetual ruins will be rebuilt; you will reestablish the ancient foundations. You will be called,‘The one who repairs broken walls, the one who makes the streets inhabitable again.’
  • Zech 5:4 : 4 “I will send it out,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and it will enter the house of the thief and of the person who swears falsely in my name. It will land in the middle of his house and destroy both timber and stones.”
  • Matt 7:26-27 : 26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed– it was utterly destroyed!”
  • Prov 11:28 : 28 The one who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.