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Proverbs 16

Prov. 16:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
hath made
pa`al (Hebrew #6466)
to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise
KJV usage: commit, (evil-) do(-er), make(-r), ordain, work(-er).
Pronounce: paw-al'
Origin: a primitive root
all things for himself
ma`aneh (Hebrew #4617)
a reply (favorable or contradictory)
KJV usage: answer, X himself.
Pronounce: mah-an-eh'
Origin: from 6030
: yea, even the wicked
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
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yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
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Rom. 9:22• 22And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction; (Rom. 9:22)

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Isa. 43:7,21• 7every one that is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory: I have formed him, yea, I have made him.
 21This people have I formed for myself: they shall shew forth my praise. (Isa. 43:7,21)
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Rom. 11:36• 36For of him, and through him, and for him are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen. (Rom. 11:36)
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Rev. 4:11• 11Thou art worthy, O our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honour and power; for *thou* hast created all things, and for thy will they were, and they have been created. (Rev. 4:11)
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Job 21:30• 30That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath. (Job 21:30)
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Rom. 9:22• 22And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction; (Rom. 9:22)
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1 Peter 2:8• 8and a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; who stumble at the word, being disobedient to which also they have been appointed. (1 Peter 2:8)
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2 Peter 2:3,9• 3And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.
 9the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trial, and to keep the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished; (2 Peter 2:3,9)
• Those saved by His grace will be to His praise forever; but the wicked will also own His justice in the day of their condemnation. (“Proverbs Sixteen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Jehovah hath wrought everything on his own accounti, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "for his own purpose."