Proverbs 21:15
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Context
This verse from Proverbs Chapter 21 connects to 10 cross-references. Proverbs on justice, diligence, and divine sovereignty: the king's heart in the Lord's hand is like channels of water turned wherever he wills. One who closes his ears to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not …
Other Translations
It is joy to the righteous to do justice; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
To do justice <FI>is<Fi> joy to the righteous, But ruin to workers of iniquity.
It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.
Cross References
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in …