Proverbs 12:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. ”

• Proverbs 12:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Proverbs 12. Here we have a number of proverbs handling the favourite subject of retribution ( Proverbs 12:2 f., Proverbs 12:7 ; Proverbs 12:14 ; Proverbs 12:21 ; Proverbs 12:28 ). Several dea...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  overthrown. Compare Genesis 19:21 ; Genesis 19:25 ; Genesis 19:29 . 2Sa 10:3. 1 Chronicles 19:3 , &c. and are not . there is nothing of them left.

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• Proverbs 12:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. The wicked are overthrown - Seldom does God give such a long life or numerous offspring. But the house of the ri...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. The wicked are overthrown (Hebrew, Infinitive for the Indicative present), and are not - ( Proverbs 10:25 ....

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• Proverbs 12:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  4. A crown, etc.] Possibly there may be a reference to the crown worn on their wedding-day by bride and bridegroom ( Song of Solomon 3:11 ; Song of Solomon 8:9 ). In Damascus the bridal crown cons...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The wicked are overthrown. — By the righteous judgments of God ( Psalms 37:35-36 ), or by the storms of temptation and trouble, which, when they come, overwhelm the house built on the sand of earth...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 13 THE TONGUE "A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his MOUTH: and the doings of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him."- Proverbs 12:14 "In the transgression of the L...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Verse Proverbs 12:9 . That is to say, it matters little that one is not counted as of any importance by his neighbors if, nevertheless, he is able to keep a servant, that is, to employ someone to mi...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones....

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• Proverbs 12:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The wicked are overthrown, and [are] not ,.... With such an overthrow as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. The kingdom of the beast shall not only be full of darkness, as at the pouring of the fifth...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The wicked are overthrown, and [are] not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. Ver. 7. The wicked are overthrown, and are not. ] Say that the righteous cannot prevail by their apologies for...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The thoughts of the righteous are right His constant purpose is to be upright before God, and just and true in all his dealings with men. But the counsels of the wicked are deceit His great care...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.       We are here taught as before ( Proverbs 12:3 ; Proverbs 10:25 ; Proverbs 10:30 ), 1. That th...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Are not; both they and their families shall suddenly perish. The house; the family or posterity.

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• Proverbs 12:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  A Comparison Between The Righteous And The Unrighteous, The Basis Of The Righteous Family, And The Destiny Of Each ( Proverbs 12:1-8 ). We have here another subsection in which the various attribu...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 12:5 . Thoughts , or “purposes.” Right , “judgment,” “justice.” Proverbs 12:7 . Wordsworth here reads, “When the wicked turn themselves,” etc., i.e. , on any rever...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 12:4 . A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, as illustrated at large in chap. 31. Proverbs 12:9 . He that is despised, and hath a servant. There are various comments here. He th...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But the house of the righteous shall stand. Virtuous kindred I. In the first place, the circumstance of belonging to the house of the righteous, is a great security that the early principles wh...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 12:1 Instruction ; correction, discipline, which shows a man his faults, gives him a lowly opinion of himself, and opens his mind to receive knowledge, especially the...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 7. The wicked are overthrown and are not, they come to an end like the ungodly inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah; but the house of the righteous shall stand, sustained in the midst of all stor...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Samuel 7:16 ; 2 Samuel 7:26 ; Esther 9:14 ; Esther 9:6-10 ; Job 11:20 ; Job 18:15-20 ; Job 27:18-23 ; Job 5:3 ; Job 5:4 ; Matthew 7:24-27 ; Proverbs 11:21 ; Proverbs 14:1 ; Proverbs 14...

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• Proverbs 12:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Are not — Both they and their families suddenly perish.

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