Proverbs 21:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

Cross References

Genesis 19:29

So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.

Job 5:3

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.

Job 8:15

He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.

Psalm 107:43

Let the wise give thought to these things, and see the mercies of the Lord.

Psalm 52:5

But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. Selah.

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

Proverbs 14:11

The house of the sinner will be overturned, but the tent of the upright man will do well.

Proverbs 14:32

The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.

Proverbs 29:16

When evil men are in power, wrongdoing is increased; but the upright will have pleasure when they see their downfall.

Hosea 14:9

He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.

Amos 4:11

And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

1 Corinthians 10:5

But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.