Proverbs 21:7
“The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.”
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
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Cross-References
“The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.”
“Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.”
“The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.”
“And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.”
“Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.”