Christian Standard Bible
Proverbs 21:7
7The violence of the wicked sweeps them away because they refuse to act justly.
Proverbs 21:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
- New International Version (NIV)The violence of the wicked will drag them away, for they refuse to do what is right.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The violence of the wicked will destroy them, Because they refuse to do justice.
Context of Proverbs 21:7
5The plans of the diligent certainly lead to profit, but anyone who is reckless certainly becomes poor. 6Making a fortune through a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a pursuit of death. The violence of the wicked sweeps them away because they refuse to act justly. 8A guilty one’s conduct is crooked, but the behavior of the innocent is upright. 9Better to live on the corner of a roof than to share a house with a nagging wife.
Read all of Proverbs 21Proverbs 21:7 word by word
שֹׁד־רְשָׁעִ֥ים יְגוֹרֵ֑ם כִּ֥י מֵ֝אֲנ֗וּ לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת מִשְׁפָּֽט׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 21:7
- Proverbs 1:18but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives.
- Proverbs 10:6Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
- Proverbs 22:22Don’t rob a poor person because he is poor, and don’t crush the oppressed at the city gate,
- Psalms 7:16His trouble comes back on his own head; his own violence comes down on top of his head.
- Psalms 9:16The Lord has made himself known; he has executed justice, snaring the wicked by the work of their hands.Higgaion. Selah
- Isaiah 1:23Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love graft and chase after bribes. They do not defend the rights of the fatherless, and the widow’s case never comes before them.
- Jeremiah 7:9“‘Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?
- Ezekiel 22:13“‘Now look, I clap my hands together against the dishonest profit you have made and against the blood shed among you.
- Micah 3:9Listen to this, leaders of the house of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert everything that is right,
- Zechariah 5:3Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land, for everyone who is a thief, contrary to what is written on one side, has gone unpunished, and everyone who swears falsely, contrary to what is written on the other side, has gone unpunished.
- Proverbs 21:21The one who pursues righteousness and faithful love will find life, righteousness, and honor.
- Ezekiel 18:18“As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity because he practiced fraud, robbed his brother, and did among his people what was not good.
- Ephesians 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.
Commentaries on Proverbs 21:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7The robbery of the wicked - The wicked shall be terrified and ruined by the means they use to aggrandize themselves. And as they refuse to do judgment, they shall have judgment without mercy.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Robbery - Probably the “violence” which the wicked practice. Shall destroy them - More literally, carries them away.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7Verse 7 Injustice will return upon the sinner, and will destroy him here and for ever.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. robbery--or, "destruction," especially oppression, of which they are authors. shall destroy--literally, "cut with a saw" (1Ki 7:9), that is, utterly ruin them. Their sins shall be visited on them in kind. to do judgment--what is just and right.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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