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Brenton's Septuagint

Proverbs 21:7

Destruction shall lodge with the ungodly; for they refuse to do justly.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Theft and Thieves;   The Topic Concordance - Destruction;   Judges;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Theft;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Violence;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Robber;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The violence of the wicked sweeps them awaybecause they refuse to act justly.
Hebrew Names Version
The violence of the wicked will drive them away, Because they refuse to do what is right.
King James Version
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
English Standard Version
The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.
New American Standard Bible
The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, Because they refuse to act with justice.
New Century Version
The violence of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do what is right.
Amplified Bible
The violence of the wicked will [return to them and] drag them away [like fish caught in a net], Because they refuse to act with justice.
World English Bible
The violence of the wicked will drive them away, Because they refuse to do what is right.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The robberie of the wicked shall destroy them: for they haue refused to execute iudgement.
Legacy Standard Bible
The destruction of the wicked will drag them away,Because they refuse to do justice.
Berean Standard Bible
The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.
Contemporary English Version
You destroy yourself by being cruel and violent and refusing to live right.
Complete Jewish Bible
The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to act justly.
Darby Translation
The devastation of the wicked sweepeth them away, because they refuse to do what is right.
Easy-to-Read Version
The bad things that evil people do will destroy them, because they refuse to do what is right.
George Lamsa Translation
The destruction of the wicked shall come upon them because they refused to do justice.
Good News Translation
The wicked are doomed by their own violence; they refuse to do what is right.
Lexham English Bible
The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, for they refuse to do justice.
Literal Translation
The violence of the wicked drags them down, because they refuse to do justice.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The robberies of the vngodly shalbe their owne destruccion, for they wolde not do the thynge that was right.
American Standard Version
The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away, Because they refuse to do justice.
Bible in Basic English
By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The violence of the wicked shall drag them away; because they refuse to do justly.
King James Version (1611)
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to doe iudgement.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The robberies of the vngodly shalbe their owne destruction: for they wyll not do the thing that is right.
English Revised Version
The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away; because they refuse to do judgment.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The raueyns of vnpitouse men schulen drawe hem doun; for thei nolden do doom.
Update Bible Version
The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away, Because they refuse to do justice.
Webster's Bible Translation
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
New English Translation
The violence done by the wicked will drag them away because they refuse to do what is right.
New King James Version
The violence of the wicked will destroy them, [fn] Because they refuse to do justice.
New Living Translation
The violence of the wicked sweeps them away, because they refuse to do what is just.
New Life Bible
The way the sinful hurt others will draw them away, because they will not do what is right and fair.
New Revised Standard
The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The violence of the lawless, shall drag them away, - because they have refused to do justice.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The robberies of the wicked shall be their downfall, because they would not do judgment.
Revised Standard Version
The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.
Young's Literal Translation
The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.
THE MESSAGE
The wicked get buried alive by their loot because they refuse to use it to help others.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The violence of the wicked will drag them away, Because they refuse to act with justice.

Contextual Overview

7 Destruction shall lodge with the ungodly; for they refuse to do justly.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

robbery: Proverbs 1:18, Proverbs 1:19, Proverbs 10:6, Proverbs 22:22, Proverbs 22:23, Psalms 7:16, Psalms 9:16, Isaiah 1:23, Isaiah 1:24, Jeremiah 7:9-11, Jeremiah 7:15, Ezekiel 22:13, Ezekiel 22:14, Micah 3:9-12

destroy them: Heb. saw them, or, dwell with them, Zechariah 5:3, Zechariah 5:4

because: Proverbs 21:21, Ezekiel 18:18, Ephesians 5:6

Reciprocal: Proverbs 11:3 - the perverseness Proverbs 16:8 - great Isaiah 10:14 - And my

Cross-References

Genesis 21:11
But the word appeared very hard before Abraam concerning his son.
Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraam, Let it not be hard before thee concerning the child, and concerning the bondwoman; in all things whatsoever Sarrha shall say to thee, hear her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Genesis 21:32
And they made a covenant at the well of the oath. And there rose up Abimelech, Ochozath his friend, and Phichol the commander-in-chief of his army, and they returned to the land of the Phylistines.
Genesis 21:34
And Abraam sojourned in the land of the Phylistines many days.
Numbers 23:23
For there is no divination in Jacob, nor enchantment in Israel; in season it shall be told to Jacob and Israel what God shall perform.
Psalms 86:8
There is none like to thee, O Lord, among the god; and there are no works like to thy works.
Psalms 86:10
For thou art great, and doest wonders: thou art the only and the great God.
Isaiah 49:21
And thou shalt say in thine heart, Who has begotten me these? whereas I was childless, and a widow; but who has brought up these for me? and I was left alone; but whence came these to me?
Isaiah 66:8
Who has heard such a thing? and who has seen after this manner? Has the earth travailed in one day? or has even a nation been born at once, that Sion has travailed, and brought forth her children?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them,.... Or cut them, so Ben Melech: dissect or "saw" s them; cut them to the heart; that is, when the sins they have been guilty of, in robbing God of his due, or doing injury to men in their properties, cheating them or stealing from them, are set home on their consciences, they are in the utmost agonies and distress; it is as if a saw was drawn to and fro over them, and will be their case for ever without true repentance: this is the worm that never dies, and the fire that is never quenched; this is everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and is very just and righteous;

because they refuse to do judgment; to do that which is just between man and man, to let everyone enjoy his own property: as it is true of private robbers, so of men in public offices, whose business it is to defend men in the quiet possession of property; which, if they refuse to do, as it is a refusal to do judgment, it is in effect a robbery of them; and will be charged on their consciences at one time or another.

s יגורם "dissecabit eos", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "serrabit eos", Aben Ezra Kimchi in Mercer. Michaelis "gravem ipsis uterum trahit", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Robbery - Probably the “violence” which the wicked practice.

Shall destroy them - More literally, carries them away.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 21:7. The 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.


 
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