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

Bible Comments

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 earthly hopes, and not on the “Rock of ages.” (Isaiah 26:4; Matthew 7:24, sqq.)

Proverbs 12:7

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