Proverbs 16:4 - New Revised Standard Version

⁴ The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ The LORD hath made all things for himself: Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ The Lord has made everything [to accommodate itself and contribute] to its own end and His own purpose–even the wicked [are fitted for their role] for the day of calamity and evil.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Jehovah hath made everything for its own end; Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Common English Bible

⁴ The LORD made everything for a purpose, even the wicked for an evil day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ The Lord has wrought all things because of himself. Likewise the impious is for the evil day.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ The Lord hath made all things for himself: the wicked also for the evil day.

Proverbs 16:4 Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Job 15:23

They wander abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ They know that a day of darkness is ready at hand;

Job 21:30

that the wicked are spared in the day of calamity, and are rescued in the day of wrath?

Exodus 9:16

But this is why I have let you live: to show you my power, and to make my name resound through all the earth.

Proverbs 16:5

All those who are arrogant are an abomination to the Lord; be assured, they will not go unpunished.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Isaiah 43:21

the people whom I formed for myself so that they might declare my praise.

Isaiah 43:7

everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

Romans 11:36

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.

Romans 9:22

What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath that are made for destruction;

1 Peter 2:8

and “A stone that makes them stumble, and a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

2 Peter 2:9

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment

Revelation 4:11

“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”