Proverbs 16:4 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

More versions

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.

English Standard Version 2016

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

Proverbs 16:4 Cross References

Genesis 1:31

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Job 15:23

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Job 21:30

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? They shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

Exodus 9:16

And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

Proverbs 16:5

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: Though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

Isaiah 43:21

This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.

Isaiah 43:7

even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

Romans 11:36

For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

Romans 9:22

What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

1 Peter 2:8

and A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

2 Peter 2:9

the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

Revelation 4:11

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.