Proverbs 21:12

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Proverbs 21:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 The soul of the wicked man craves evil; his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

11 When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; and when a wise man is instructed, he acquires knowledge.

12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.

13 Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.

14 A gift in secret soothes anger, and a covert bribe pacifies great wrath.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 5:3

I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.

Job 8:15

He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.

Job 18:14

He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

Job 18:15

Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

Job 18:16

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

Job 18:17

The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

Job 18:18

He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

Job 18:19

He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

Job 18:20

Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

Job 18:21

Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”

Job 21:28

For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’

Job 21:29

Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?

Job 21:30

Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.

Job 27:13

This is the wicked man’s portion from God— the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

Job 27:14

Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.

Job 27:15

His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.

Job 27:16

Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,

Job 27:17

what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.

Job 27:18

The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.

Job 27:19

He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.

Job 27:20

Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

Job 27:21

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Job 27:22

It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

Job 27:23

It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.

Psalms 37:35

I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

Psalms 37:36

yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.

Psalms 52:5

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Psalms 107:43

Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.

Hosea 14:9

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.

Habakkuk 2:9

Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!

Habakkuk 2:10

You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.

Habakkuk 2:11

For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork.

Habakkuk 2:12

Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness undermines the sinner.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

Genesis 19:29

So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.

Amos 4:11

“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

1 Corinthians 10:5

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

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

2 Peter 2:5

if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;

2 Peter 2:6

if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

2 Peter 2:7

and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless

2 Peter 2:8

(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—

2 Peter 2:9

if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

2 Peter 3:6

through which the world of that time perished in the flood.

2 Peter 3:7

And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.