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Proverbs 21

Prov. 21:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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It is joy
simchah (Hebrew #8057)
blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival)
KJV usage: X exceeding(-ly), gladness, joy(-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice(-ing).
Pronounce: sim-khaw'
Origin: from 8056
to the just
tsaddiyq (Hebrew #6662)
just
KJV usage: just, lawful, righteous (man).
Pronounce: tsad-deek'
Origin: from 6663
to do
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
judgment
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
: butf destruction
mchittah (Hebrew #4288)
properly, a dissolution; concretely, a ruin, or (abstractly) consternation
KJV usage: destruction, dismaying, ruin, terror.
Pronounce: mekh-it-taw'
Origin: from 2846
shall be to the workers
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
of iniquity
'aven (Hebrew #205)
strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
KJV usage: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain ,vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare 369.
Pronounce: aw-ven'
Origin: from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught)
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Matt. 7:23• 23and then will I avow unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me, workers of lawlessness. (Matt. 7:23)

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Ministry on This Verse

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joy.
Job 29:12‑17• 12For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
 13The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
 14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.
 15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
 16I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
 17And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. (Job 29:12‑17)
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Psa. 40:8• 8To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart. (Psa. 40:8)
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Psa. 112:1• 1Hallelujah! Blessed is the man that feareth Jehovah, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. (Psa. 112:1)
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Psa. 119:16,92• 16I delight myself in thy statutes; I will not forget thy word.
 92Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction. (Psa. 119:16,92)
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Eccl. 3:12• 12I know that there is nothing good for them but to rejoice and to do well in their life; (Eccl. 3:12)
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Isa. 64:5• 5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth to do righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: (behold, thou wast wroth, and we have sinned:) in those is perpetuity, and we shall be saved. (Isa. 64:5)
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John 4:34• 34Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work. (John 4:34)
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Rom. 7:22• 22For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man: (Rom. 7:22)
destruction.
Prov. 21:12• 12One that is righteous wisely considereth the house of the wicked: he overthroweth the wicked to their ruin. (Prov. 21:12)
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Prov. 5:20• 20And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? (Prov. 5:20)
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Prov. 10:29• 29The way of Jehovah is strength to the perfect man, but destruction to the workers of iniquity. (Prov. 10:29)
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Matt. 7:23• 23and then will I avow unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me, workers of lawlessness. (Matt. 7:23)
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Matt. 13:41‑42• 41The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all offences, and those that practise lawlessness;
 42and they shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 13:41‑42)
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Luke 13:27‑28• 27and he shall say, I tell you, I do not know you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
 28There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves cast out. (Luke 13:27‑28)
• Take a business man who has learned to order his ways in public and private in integrity and honesty—to depart from principles such as these, would be, in his eyes, painful, and cause for grief and sorrow. But with too many it is accepted as an axiom that one cannot prosper in a business way and maintain the right. To attempt to do so seems to them to foreshadow certain and speedy failure. (“Proverbs Twenty-One” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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It is joy to a righteous man to do what is rightb; but it is ruin for the workers of iniquity.

JND Translation Notes

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b
Elsewhere "righteous judgment."