Proverbs 28:28 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁸ When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: But when they perish, the righteous increase.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ When the wicked rise [to power], men hide themselves; but when they perish, the [consistently] righteous increase and become many. [Prov. 28:12.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; But when they perish, the righteous increase.

Common English Bible

²⁸ When the wicked rise up, people hide, but when they are destroyed, the righteous multiply.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ When the impious rise up, men will hide themselves. When they perish, the just shall be multiplied.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ When the wicked rise up, men shall hide themselves: when they perish, the lust shall be multiplied.

Proverbs 28:28 Cross References

2 Chronicles 22:12

And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athali´ah reigned over the land.

Esther 8:17

And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.

Job 24:4

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Proverbs 28:12

When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.

Proverbs 28:27

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

Proverbs 29:1

He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.