Proverbs 15:25
The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
BSB
ASV
Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.
KJV
The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
The widow - Here, as elsewhere Deu 10:18; Psa 68:5, the widow, as the most extreme type of desolation, stands as the representative of a class safer in their poverty under the protection of the Lord, than the proud in the haughtiness of their strength.
The most desolate who have God's aid have more permanent good than the self-reliant sinner (Pr 2:22; 12:7). border--or, "boundary for possessions" (Ps 78:54).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 14:11The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
leads to
The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.
The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the house of the righteous will stand.
But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.
For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
Through
Psalms 146:9The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
leads to
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
