Proverbs 21:12 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹² 9 It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: But God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² The [uncompromisingly] righteous man considers well the house of the wicked–how the wicked are cast down to ruin.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² The righteous man considereth the house of the wicked, How the wicked are overthrown to their ruin.

Common English Bible

¹² The righteous one observes the house of the wicked, turning the wicked toward trouble.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² The just thinks carefully about the house of the impious, so that he may draw the impious away from evil.

Proverbs 21:12 Cross References

Genesis 19:29

9 Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering Abraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein he had dwelt.

Job 5:3

Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:

Job 8:15

0 God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evildoer:

Psalm 107:43

God hath spoken in his holiness. I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem and I will mete out the vale of tabernacles.

Psalm 52:5

All have gone aside, they are become unprofitable together, there is none that doth good, no not one.

Proverbs 13:6

3 Whosoever speaketh ill of any thing, bindeth himself for the time to come: but he that feareth the commandment, shall dwell in peace. Deceitful souls go astray in sins: the just are merciful, and shew mercy.

Proverbs 14:11

8 The childish shall possess folly, and the prudent, shall look for knowledge.

Proverbs 14:32

A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is immoderate, shall crush the spirit.

Proverbs 29:16

3 Humiliation followeth the proud: and glory shall uphold the humble of spirit.

Hosea 14:9

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Amos 4:11

Seek ye the Lord, and live: lest the house of Joseph be burnt with fire, and it shall devour, and there shall be none to quench Bethel.

1 Corinthians 10:5

4 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols.