Proverbs 15:25
in Proverbs 15The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
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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.
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This verse in Proverbs 15
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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.
This site's exposition
The LORD tears down the house of the proud
“The LORD tears down the house of the proud,” as flattery and folly tear down houses elsewhere in the book. The same verse says “He protects the boundaries of the widow,” the one person in Israel with no one else to defend her boundary line.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
The Lord demolishes the house of the proud, etc. The Lord demolishes the gatherings of heretics and other persecutors of the Church, and establishes the boundaries of the same Church, that is, His bride, firm throughout the whole world, for whose life He deigned to …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
The Lord will destroy the house of the proud,.... To whom he has the utmost aversion; he sets himself against them and resists them, and will not only destroy them, but their stately houses too, which their have fancied shall continue for ever; and also their families, their children and posterity; these shall be as stubble, and shall be burnt up in his wrath, and neither root nor branch left.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
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).
The house of the proud - Families of this description are seldom continued long. The Lord hates pride; and those that will not be humble he will destroy.
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בֵּ֣ית | beit | [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| גֵּ֭אִים | geim | proud [people] | H1343 → | |
| יִסַּ֥ח׀ | yisach | he tears down | H5255 → | |
| יְהוָ֑ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| וְ֝יַצֵּ֗ב | veyatzev | and he will establish | H5324 → | |
| גְּב֣וּל | gevul | [the] territory of | H1366 → | 240 times |
| אַלְמָנָֽה׃ | ʾalmanah | a widow | H490 → |
בֵּ֣ית[the] house of
beitH1004 →2046 times
גֵּ֭אִיםproud [people]
geimH1343 →
יִסַּ֥ח׀he tears down
yisachH5255 →
יְהוָ֑הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
וְ֝יַצֵּ֗בand he will establish
veyatzevH5324 →
גְּב֣וּל[the] territory of
gevulH1366 →240 times
אַלְמָנָֽה׃a widow
ʾalmanahH490 →
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 14:11The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
it leads to
- Proverbs 3:33
The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.
- Proverbs 12:7
The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the house of the righteous will stand.
- Matthew 7:26–27
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.
- Proverbs 21:12
The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.
- Job 21:28
For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
- Proverbs 3:33
Through
Psalms 146:9The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
it leads to
- Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
- Psalms 147:6
The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.
- Deuteronomy 10:18–19
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
- Psalms 68:5
Where this verse is studied
About Proverbs
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.