Proverbs 21:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² The righteous man considereth the house of the wicked; How the wicked are overthrown to their 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

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

Job 5:3

I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

Job 8:15

He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

Psalm 107:43

Whoso is wise shall give heed to these things, And they shall consider the mercies of the LORD.

Psalm 52:5

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, He shall take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land of the living. Selah

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way: But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Proverbs 14:11

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: But the tent of the upright shall flourish.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing: But the righteous hath hope in his death.

Proverbs 29:16

When the wicked are increased, transgression increaseth: But the righteous shall look upon their fall.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, mad the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.

Amos 4:11

I have overthrown some among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

1 Corinthians 10:5

Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.