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Selected Verse: Proverbs 12:7 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 12:7 |
Strong Concordance |
The wicked [07563] are overthrown [02015], and are not: but the house [01004] of the righteous [06662] shall stand [05975]. |
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King James |
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Such conduct brings a proper return, by the destruction of the wicked and well-being of the righteous and his family. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
7 The godless are overturned and are no more,
But the house of the righteous stands.
Bertheau and Zckler explain: The wicked turn about, then are they no more; i.e., as we say: it is over with them "in the turning of a hand." The noun in the inf. absol. may certainly be the subject, like Pro 17:12, as well as the object (Ewald, 328c), and הפך may be used of the turning about of oneself, Psa 78:9; Kg2 5:26; Ch2 9:12. That explanation also may claim for itself that הפך nowhere occurs with a personal object, if we except one questionable passage, Isa 1:7. But here the interpretation of the רשׁעים as the object lies near the contrast of בית, and moreover the interpretation of the הפך, not in the sense of στρέφεσθαι (lxx), but of καταστρέφειν (Syr., Targ., Jerome, Graec. Venet., Luther), lies near the contrast of יעמד. The inf. absol. thus leaves the power from which the catastrophe proceeds indefinite, as the pass. יהפפכוּ would also leave it, and the act designedly presented in a vague manner to connect with ו the certain consequences therewith, as Pro 25:4., as if to say: there comes only from some quarter an unparalleled overthrow which overwhelms the godless; thus no rising up again is to be thought on, it is all over with them; while, on the contrary, the house of the righteous withstands the storm which sweeps away the godless. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Are not - Both they and their families suddenly perish. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
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. |
4 Take away [01898] the dross [05509] from the silver [03701], and there shall come forth [03318] a vessel [03627] for the finer [06884].
7 Your country [0776] is desolate [08077], your cities [05892] are burned [08313] with fire [0784]: your land [0127], strangers [02114] devour [0398] it in your presence, and it is desolate [08077], as overthrown [04114] by strangers [02114].
12 And king [04428] Solomon [08010] gave [05414] to the queen [04436] of Sheba [07614] all her desire [02656], whatsoever she asked [07592], beside that which she had brought [0935] unto the king [04428]. So she turned [02015], and went away [03212] to her own land [0776], she and her servants [05650].
26 And he said [0559] unto him, Went [01980] not mine heart [03820] with thee, when the man [0376] turned [02015] again from his chariot [04818] to meet [07125] thee? Is it a time [06256] to receive [03947] money [03701], and to receive [03947] garments [0899], and oliveyards [02132], and vineyards [03754], and sheep [06629], and oxen [01241], and menservants [05650], and maidservants [08198]?
9 The children [01121] of Ephraim [0669], being armed [05401], and carrying [07411] bows [07198], turned back [02015] in the day [03117] of battle [07128].
12 Let a bear [01677] robbed [07909] of her whelps meet [06298] a man [0376], rather than [0408] a fool [03684] in his folly [0200].