The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.
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The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.
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The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
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The violence of the wicked shall drag them away; because they refuse to do justly.
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Passages linked to Proverbs 21:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 21:21 He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.
- Psalms 7:16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
- Proverbs 22:22-23 Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court; for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
- Micah 3:9-12 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.” Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
- Zechariah 5:3-4 Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side. I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”
- Ephesians 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
- Psalms 9:16 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands.
- Proverbs 1:18-19 but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives. So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
- Proverbs 10:6 Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
- Isaiah 1:23-24 Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them. Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies.
- Jeremiah 7:9-11 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations? Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it,” says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 7:15 I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim.
- Ezekiel 18:18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity.
- Ezekiel 22:13-14 “ ‘ “Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you. Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain He meaneth this chiefly of Judges, and Princes which…
He meaneth this chiefly of Judges, and Princes which leave that vocation, whereunto God hath called them, and powle their subjects to maintain their lusts.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 21:7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy…
Pro 21:7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
Ver. 7. The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them.] Heb., Shall saw them: that is, shall bring upon them exquisite and extreme torments, such as the prophet Isaiah, and those martyrs {Heb 11:37} were put unto unjustly; such as Agag suffered justly, and those barbarous Ammonites. {2Sa 12:31} Some render it dissecabit eos shall cut them in twain, as that evil servant, {Luk 12:46} and those blasphemers of Daniel’s God. {Dan 3:29} Others render it, Shall abide upon them, or, Dwell with them. Their illgotten goods vanish, but their punishment remains. Their stolen venison is soon eaten up, but the shot is not yet paid; there is a sad reckoning behind. God will rake out of their bellies those tit bits - those murdering morsels. Besides that, for their last dish is served up astonishment and fearful expectation of just revenge. The Hebrew word here translated "destroy" signifies also to terrify and fear. They shall be a Magormissabib to themselves, as Pashur was, {Jer 20:3-4} running from chamber to chamber, to hide from the hand of justice - as that notable thief Bulas in the days of Severus the emperor {a} - but they shall not escape; their sin will find them out. God will pour upon them, and not spare, whether they be private thieves, or those public robbers, qui in auto et purpura visuntur, {b} as Cato once said, that are clad with purple, and have gold chains about their necks; corrupt judges, who judge for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him. Such were Empson and Dudley in their generation. Such was Judge Belknap in Richard II’s days, who, being about to subscribe the articles against proceedings of parliament, said there wanted but a hurdle, a horse, and a halter to carry him where he might suffer for assenting to them. {c} And that of these public thieves Solomon chiefly speaks here we may well think by the following clause, shewing the cause of their sore and sharp punishment, because they refuse to do judgment.
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{a} Dio. in Sever.
{b} Gell., lib. xi. cap. 16.
{c} Speed, p. 747.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; the…
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; the injury which they do to others shall either by God or men be returned upon their own heads. They refuse to do judgment; they wilfully and obstinately give up themselves to unrighteous practices.
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Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain See here, 1. The nature of injustice. Getting money…
See here, 1. The nature of injustice. Getting money by lying (Pro 21:6) is no better than downright robbery. Cheating is stealing; you might as well pick a man's pocket as impose upon him by a lie in making a bargain, which he had no fence against but by not believing you; and it will be no excuse from the guilt of robbery to say that he might choose whether he would believe you, for that is a debt we should owe to all men. 2. The cause of injustice. Men refuse to do judgment; they will not render to all their due, but withhold it, and omissions make way for commissions; they come at length to robbery itself. Those that refuse to do justice will choose to do wrong. 3. The effects of injustice; it will return upon the sinner's own head. The robbery of the wicked will terrify them (so some); their consciences will be filled with horror and amazement, will cut them, will saw them asunder (so others); it will destroy them here and for ever, therefore he had said (Pro 21:6), They seek death.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them,.... Or…
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them,.... Or cut them, so Ben Melech: dissect or "saw" (s) them; cut them to the heart; that is, when the sins they have been guilty of, in robbing God of his due, or doing injury to men in their properties, cheating them or stealing from them, are set home on their consciences, they are in the utmost agonies and distress; it is as if a saw was drawn to and fro over them, and will be their case for ever without true repentance: this is the worm that never dies, and the fire that is never quenched; this is everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and is very just and righteous;
because they refuse to do judgment; to do that which is just between man and man, to let everyone enjoy his own property: as it is true of private robbers, so of men in public offices, whose business it is to defend men in the quiet possession of property; which, if they refuse to do, as it is a refusal to do judgment, it is in effect a robbery of them; and will be charged on their consciences at one time or another.
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(s) "dissecabit eos", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "serrabit eos", Aben Ezra & Kimchi in Mercer. Michaelis; "gravem ipsis uterum trahit", Schultens.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. The robbery of the wicked] The wicked…
Verse 7. The robbery of the wicked] The wicked shall be terrified and ruined by the means they use to aggrandize themselves. And as they refuse to do judgment, they shall have judgment without mercy.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Pro 21:7-8. The robbery of the wicked shall destroy…
Pro 21:7-8. The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them — The injury which they do to others shall, either by God or men, be returned upon their own heads; because they refuse to do judgment — They wilfully and obstinately give up themselves to unrighteous practices. The way of man — The course of man’s life, of the life of every man, as he is by nature, or in his corrupt state; is froward and strange — Perverse and estranged from God, and from man’s primitive integrity, and from the rule which God hath given him whereby to direct his actions, namely, reason and Scripture; but as for the pure, his work is right — His conversation, his tempers, words, and works; his designs and undertakings are agreeable to that rule.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Robbery - Probably the “violence” which the wicked practice.
Robbery - Probably the “violence” which the wicked practice.
Shall destroy them - More literally, carries them away.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain robbery--or, "destruction," especially oppression, of which they are authors.
robbery--or, "destruction," especially oppression, of which they are authors.
shall destroy--literally, "cut with a saw" (Kg1 7:9), that is, utterly ruin them. Their sins shall be visited on them in kind.
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to do judgment--what is just and right.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 7. Robbery — Rapacity or violence.
7. Robbery — Rapacity or violence.
Shall destroy them — Sweep them sway; shall be the occasion of their destruction. Compare Pro_24:21. Refuse to do judgment — That which is just and right between man and man. The idea in the first clause is, that the violence they practised upon others shall fall upon themselves. “His violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.” Psa_7:16. The incendiary shall be consumed in the fire which he kindles. Comp. Pro_1:18-19; Psa_34:21.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. robbery] Rather, violence.
7. robbery] Rather, violence.
destroy them] Rather, sweep them up, or catch them, as fishes, for example, in a net. Comp. Hab_1:15, where the same Heb. word is used.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) The robbery of the wicked.—Or, their violence. See…
(7) The robbery of the wicked.—Or, their violence. See above on Pro_1:19. (Comp. Psa_9:15.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; Vulgate,…
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; Vulgate, rapinae impiorum detrahenteos; Revised Version, "The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away," like chaff before the wind. The violence with which they treat others shall rebound on themselves, shall bring its own punishment; they shall sink in the pit that they made, and their foot shall be taken in the net which they hid. (Psa_9:15; comp. Pro_1:18, Pro_1:19) Septuagint, "Destruction shall sojourn as guest (epixenwyhsetai ) with the ungodly." The reason of this fate is given in the concluding hemistich: Because they refuse to do judgment. This is a judicial retribution on them for wilfully declining (ver. 25) to do what is right.
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Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain v. 7. The robbery of the wicked, the violence…
v. 7. The robbery of the wicked, the violence which they try to exert in working harm to others, shall destroy them, they are swept away as the result of their own wickedness, because they refuse to do judgment, that which is just and right before the Lord.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 The violence of the wicked will drag them away
The violence of the wicked will drag them away
The writer speaks as though violence were a person who could drag other people away. God will punish wicked people who harm their innocent neighbors. (See: Personification)
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violence of the wicked
The abstract noun "violence" refers to violent deeds or things people do to harm their innocent neighbors. The word "wicked" is a nominal adjective that refers to wicked people. AT: "The violent actions of wicked people" (See: Abstract Nouns and Nominal Adjectives)
drag them away
This phrase refers to dragging a net through water to catch fish. The wicked being destroyed by their own actions is spoken of as if their actions trapped them in a net like one would catch fish. AT "drag them away like fish" or "destroy them as easily as one catches fish in a net" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information and Metaphor)
The way of a guilty person is crooked
This compares the way one lives to a crooked road one may travel. This is also an idiom. AT: "The way a guilty person lives is crooked" (See: Idiom and Metaphor)
crooked
Here "crooked" means bent or not straight. This is a metaphor for morally wrong. AT: "wrong" (See: Metaphor)
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