The righteous [man] wisely considereth the house of the wicked: [but God] overthroweth the wicked for [their] wickedness.
Ver. 12. The righteous man wisely considereth, &c.] He foreseeth its fearful fall, and is not offended at their present prosperity; for God, he knows, will shortly overturn it. This consideration cures him of the fret, as it did David Psa 37:1-2 It doth also instruct him in many points of heavenly wisdom, as it did the Church. Isaiah 26:11 1Co 10:11 The destruction of others should be an instruction to us, that we may wash our feet in the blood of the wicked. Psa 52:6