Proverbs 21:12

The Scriptures 2009

The righteous one understands the house of the wrong; He overthrows the wrong for their evil.

Cross References

Genesis 19:29

Thus it came to be, when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain, that Elohim remembered Aḇraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.

Job 5:3

I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly his home was cursed.

Job 8:15

He leans on his house, but it does not stand. He holds it fast, but it does not last.

Psalm 107:43

Who is wise? Then let him observe these matters! Let them understand the loving-commitments of יהוה.

Psalm 52:5

Let Ěl also break you down forever, Take you and pluck you out of your tent. And He shall uproot you From the land of the living. Selah.

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness watches over him who is perfect in the way, But wrongness overthrows the sinner.

Proverbs 14:11

The house of the wrong is destroyed, But the tent of the straight flourishes.

Proverbs 14:32

By his own evildoing the wrong is thrust down, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.

Proverbs 29:16

When the wrong become many, transgression increases; But the righteous look on their fall.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise and understands these words, discerning and knows them? For the ways of יהוה are straight, and the righteous walk in them, but the transgressors stumble in them.

Amos 4:11

“I have overthrown some of you, as Elohim overthrew Seḏom and Amorah, and you were like a burning stick plucked from the burning. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares יהוה.

1 Corinthians 10:5

However, with most of them Elohim was not well pleased, for they were laid low in the wilderness.