Proverbs 12:7
in Proverbs 12The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the house of the righteous will stand.
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ASV
The wicked are overthrown, and are not; But the house of the righteous shall stand.
KJV
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
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This verse in Proverbs 12
Commentary
6 notes on this verseThe wicked are overthrown, and are not,.... With such an overthrow as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
This site's exposition
The plans of the righteous are just
on Proverbs 12:5-7
“The plans of the righteous are just,” but “the counsel of the wicked leads to deceit,” so the contrast moves inward to the mind. The wicked “are overthrown and perish” with the finality Psalm 37 gives the wicked man's sudden end, but “the house of the righteous will stand”.
This site's exposition
the house of the righteous will stand
The wicked are overthrown and perish, and the house of the righteous stands as a family line as well as a building. Adam Clarke notes that the righteous often see their families continue for generations, while the wicked seldom leave many in a direct line. The wicked are no more.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
Turn the wicked, and they will be no more, etc. When the wicked depart from this life, they will not be as they were, because after death they find not what they believed, but frustrated in their hope, they receive torments instead of rewards. However, …
A commentator
Gregory the Dialogist40 Homilies on the Gospels, Homily 32 · Written before 604.
proposed
Let us leave behind ourselves as we made ourselves by sinning, and let us remain ourselves as we were made through grace. For behold, if someone who was proud, having been converted to Christ, has become humble, he has left himself behind. If any lustful person has changed his life to continence, he has certainly denied what he was. If any greedy person has now ceased to grasp at things and has learned to give away his own possessions who previously seized what belonged to others, without doubt he has left himself behind.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
The wicked are overthrown - Seldom does God give such a long life or numerous offspring. But the house of the righteous shall stand - God blesses their progeny, and their families continue long in the earth; whereas the wicked seldom have many generations in a direct line. This is God’s mercy, that the entail of iniquity may be in some sort cut off, so that the same vices may not be strengthened by successive generations. For generally the bad root produces not only a bad plant, but one worse than itself.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הָפ֣וֹךְ | hafokh | [someone] overthrows | H2015 → | |
| רְשָׁעִ֣ים | reshaim | wicked [people] | H7563 → | 263 times |
| וְאֵינָ֑ם | veeinam | and there not [are] they | H369 → | 789 times |
| וּבֵ֖ית | uveit | and [the] household of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| צַדִּיקִ֣ים | tzadikim | righteous [people] | H6662 → | 206 times |
| יַעֲמֹֽד׃ | yaamod | it endures | H5975 → | 521 times |
הָפ֣וֹךְ[someone] overthrows
hafokhH2015 →
רְשָׁעִ֣יםwicked [people]
reshaimH7563 →263 times
וְאֵינָ֑םand there not [are] they
veeinamH369 →789 times
וּבֵ֖יתand [the] household of
uveitH1004 →2046 times
צַדִּיקִ֣יםrighteous [people]
tzadikimH6662 →206 times
יַעֲמֹֽד׃it endures
yaamodH5975 →521 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Proverbs 11:21Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
it leads to
- Psalms 112:1–2
Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
- Acts 2:39
This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
- Jeremiah 32:39
I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
- Psalms 37:26
They are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.
- Proverbs 16:5
Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.
- Psalms 112:1–2
Through
Psalms 37:10Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
it leads to
- Job 24:24
They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
- Psalms 107:42–43
The upright see and rejoice, and all iniquity shuts its mouth.
- Job 24:24
Through
Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
it leads to
- Psalms 15:5
who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
- Psalms 15:5
Where this verse is studied
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About Proverbs
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; Gregory the Dialogist, 40 Homilies on the Gospels, Homily 32; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.