Proverbs 15:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The Lord tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow’s boundaries. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: But he will establish the border of the widow. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but He makes secure the boundaries of the [consecrated] widow. American Standard Version (1901) Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow. Common English Bible The LORD snatches away the arrogant one’s house, but he preserves the widow’s boundaries. Catholic Public Domain Version The Lord will demolish the house of the arrogant. And He will make firm the borders of the widow. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will strengthen the borders of the widow. |
But you do see! Indeed, you note trouble and grief, that you may take it into your hands; the helpless commit themselves to you; you have been the helper of the orphan.
For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he perceives from far away.
The Lord watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
Why do you boast, O mighty one, of mischief done against the godly? All day long
But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.
The house of the wicked is destroyed, but the tent of the upright flourishes.
learn to do good; seek justice; rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan; plead for the widow.
For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up and high;
they have grown fat and sleek. They know no limits in deeds of wickedness; they do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he acted proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his glory was stripped from him.
“You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, set up by former generations, on the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
In the same way, you who are younger must be subject to the elders. And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”