God’s Word Translation
Proverbs 21:15
15When justice is done, a righteous person is delighted, but troublemakers are terrified.
Proverbs 21:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
- New International Version (NIV)When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
- English Standard Version (ESV)When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
- New King James Version (NKJV)It is a joy for the just to do justice, But destruction will come to the workers of iniquity.
Context of Proverbs 21:15
13Whoever shuts his ear to the cry of the poor will call and not be answered. 14A gift ⌞given⌟ in secret calms anger, and a secret bribe calms great fury. When justice is done, a righteous person is delighted, but troublemakers are terrified. 16A person who wanders from the way of wise behavior will rest in the assembly of the dead. 17Whoever loves pleasure will become poor. Whoever loves wine and expensive food will not become rich.
Read all of Proverbs 21Proverbs 21:15 word by word
שִׂמְחָ֣ה לַ֭צַּדִּיק עֲשׂ֣וֹת מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּ֝מְחִתָּ֗ה לְפֹ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 21:15
- Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who called ⌞for help⌟ and the orphans who had no one to help them.
- Psalms 40:8I am happy to do your will, O my God.” Your teachings are deep within me.
- Psalms 112:1Hallelujah! Blessed is the person who fears the Lord and is happy to obey his commands.
- Psalms 119:16Your laws make me happy. I never forget your word.
- Ecclesiastes 3:12I realize that there’s nothing better for them to do than to be cheerful and enjoy what is good in their lives.
- Isaiah 64:5You greeted the one who gladly does right and remembers your ways. You showed your anger, because we’ve sinned. We’ve continued to sin for a long time. Can we still be saved?
- John 4:34Jesus told them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants me to do and to finish the work he has given me.
- Romans 7:22I take pleasure in God’s standards in my inner being.
- Proverbs 21:12A righteous person wisely considers the house of a wicked person. He throws wicked people into disasters.
- Proverbs 5:20Why should you, my son, be intoxicated with an adulterous woman and fondle a loose woman’s breast?
- Proverbs 10:29The way of the Lord is a fortress for an innocent person but a ruin to those who are troublemakers.
- Matthew 7:23Then I will tell them publicly, ‘I’ve never known you. Get away from me, you evil people.’
- Matthew 13:41The Son of Man will send his angels. They will gather everything in his kingdom that causes people to sin and everyone who does evil.
- Luke 13:27But he will tell you, ‘I don’t know who you are. Get away from me, all you evil people.’
Commentaries on Proverbs 21:15
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15Verse 15 There is true pleasure only in the practice of religion.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15God is fair, so he rewards good people and punishes bad ones. This is why good people love justice, and bad people fear it.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. But the just love right and need no bribes. The wicked at last meet destruction, though for a time happy in concealing corruption.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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