Proverbs 14:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

Proverbs 14:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 3:33
The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
Proverbs 12:7
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Matthew 7:26-27
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: …
Job 21:28
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
Zechariah 5:4
I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11)

Note, 1. Sin is the ruin of great families: The house of the wicked, though built ever so strong and high, shall be overthrown, shall be brought to poverty and disgrace, and at length be extinct. His hope for heaven, the house on which he leans, shall not stand, but fail in the storm; the deluge that comes will sweep it away. 2. Righteousness is the rise and stability even of mean families: Even t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. (Compare Pr 12:7). The contrast of the whole is enhanced by that of house and tabernacle, a permanent and a temporary dwelling.