Proverbs 21:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

Proverbs 21:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 21:21
He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
Ephesians 5:6
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Zechariah 5:3-4
Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it. …
Proverbs 1:18-19
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. …
Proverbs 22:22-23
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: …

Topics

Theft and Thieves

Commentary

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

(vv. 7)

See here, 1. The nature of injustice. Getting money by lying (Prov. 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 d…

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

(vv. 7)

7. robbery--or, “destruction,” especially oppression, of which they are authors. shall destroy--literally, “cut with a saw” (1Ki 7:9), that is, utterly ruin them. Their sins shall be visited on them in kind. to do judgment--what is just and right.