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Proverbs 21:15
15When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Justice is a joy to the godly, but it terrifies evildoers.
Context of Proverbs 21:15
13Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered. 14A gift given in secret soothes anger, and a bribe concealed in the cloak pacifies great wrath. When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers. 16Whoever strays from the path of prudence comes to rest in the company of the dead. 17Whoever loves pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and olive oil will never be 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 cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to assist them.
- Psalms 40:8I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.”
- Psalms 112:1Praise the Lord. Blessed are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in his commands.
- Psalms 119:16I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.
- Ecclesiastes 3:12I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.
- Isaiah 64:5You come to the help of those who gladly do right, who remember your ways. But when we continued to sin against them, you were angry. How then can we be saved?
- John 4:34“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
- Romans 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;
- Proverbs 21:12The Righteous One takes note of the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.
- Proverbs 5:20Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
- Proverbs 10:29The way of the Lord is a refuge for the blameless, but it is the ruin of those who do evil.
- Matthew 7:23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
- Matthew 13:41The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.
- Luke 13:27“But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!’
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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