Proverbs 16:4 - The Scriptures 2009

⁴ יהוה has made all for His purpose, And also the wrong for the day of evil.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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.

Proverbs 16:4 Cross References

Genesis 1:31

And Elohim saw all that He had made, and see, it was very good. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the sixth day.

Job 15:23

He wanders about for food – where is it? He knows that a day of darkness is prepared for him.

Job 21:30

That the wicked is kept for the day of calamity. They are brought to the day of wrath.

Exodus 9:16

“And for this reason I have raised you up, in order to show you My power, and in order to declare My Name in all the earth.

Proverbs 16:5

Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to יהוה; Hand to hand: he goes not unpunished.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made it all, beautiful in its time. Even the ages He has put in their hearts, except that no one finds out the work that Elohim does from beginning to end.

Isaiah 43:21

this people I have formed for Myself, let them relate My praise.

Isaiah 43:7

all those who are called by My Name, whom I have created, formed, even made for My esteem.”

Romans 11:36

Because of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all, to whom be esteem forever. Amĕn.

Romans 9:22

And if Elohim, desiring to show wrath, and to make His power known, with much patience tolerated the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

1 Peter 2:8

and “A stone of stumbling and a rock that makes for falling,” who stumble because they are disobedient to the Word, to which they also were appointed.

2 Peter 2:3

and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.

2 Peter 2:9

then יהוה knows how to rescue the reverent ones from trial and to keep the unrighteous unto the day of judgment, to be punished,

Revelation 4:11

“You are worthy, O יהוה, to receive esteem and respect and power, for You have created all, and because of Your desire they are, and were created.”