Proverbs 21:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² The Righteous One observes the house of the wicked; he casts the wicked down to ruin.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² The just considereth seriously the house of the wicked, that he may withdraw the wicked from evil.

Proverbs 21:12 Cross References

Genesis 19:29

So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had settled.

Job 5:3

I have seen fools taking root, but suddenly I cursed their dwelling.

Job 8:15

If one leans against its house, it will not stand; if one lays hold of it, it will not endure.

Psalm 107:43

Let those who are wise pay attention to these things and consider the steadfast love of the Lord.

Psalm 52:5

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

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness guards one whose way is upright, but sin overthrows the wicked.

Proverbs 14:11

The house of the wicked is destroyed, but the tent of the upright flourishes.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing, but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.

Proverbs 29:16

When the wicked are in authority, transgression increases, but the righteous will look upon their downfall.

Hosea 14:9

Those who are wise understand these things; those who are discerning know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.

Amos 4:11

I overthrew some of you as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a brand snatched from the fire; yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.

1 Corinthians 10:5

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness.