Proverbs 16:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ 1 Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.

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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.

Proverbs 16:4 Cross References

Genesis 1:31

1 And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.

Job 15:23

8 He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps.

Job 21:30

Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:

Exodus 9:16

8 Behold I will cause it to rain to morrow at this same hour, an exceeding great hail: such as hath not been in Egypt from the day that it was founded, until this present time.

Proverbs 16:5

2 They that act wickedly are abominable to the king: for the throne is established by justice.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

8 I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.

Isaiah 43:21

AND now hear, O Jacob, my servant, and Israel whom I have chosen.

Isaiah 43:7

5 I am the Lord your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

Romans 11:36

He that exhorteth, in exhorting; he that giveth, with simplicity; he that ruleth, with carefulness; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

Romans 9:22

0 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who followed not after justice, have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith.

1 Peter 2:8

7 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

2 Peter 2:3

2 But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption,

2 Peter 2:9

8 For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness, those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:

Revelation 4:11

And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book, and to open the seals thereof; because thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.