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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 to them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work lawlessness. (Matt. 7:23)

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joy.
Job 29:12‑17• 12For I delivered the poor that cried,{HR}And the fatherless that had no helper.
 13The blessing of the perishing came on me,{HR}And the heart of the widow I made sing.
 14Righteousness I put on, and it put me on,{HR}As a robe and a diadem mine equity.
 15I was eyes to the blind,{HR}And feet [was] I to the lame,
 16A father to the needy,{HR}And the cause I knew not I searched.
 17And I broke the jaw of the wicked,{HR}And flung the prey out of his teeth. (Job 29:12‑17)
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Psa. 40:8• 8To do thy will, my God, I delight;{HR}And thy law [is] in the midst of my bowels. (Psa. 40:8)
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Psa. 112:1• 1Praise ye Jah.{HR}Blessed [is] the man fearing Jehovah,{HR}In his commandments delighting greatly. (Psa. 112:1)
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Psa. 119:16,92• 16In thy statutes I will delight myself;{HR}I will not forget thy word.
 92Unless thy law [had been] my delights,{HR}Then should I have perished in mine affliction. (Psa. 119:16,92)
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Eccl. 3:12• 12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice,{HR}And to do good so long as they live; (Eccl. 3:12)
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Isa. 64:5• 5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth to work righteousness, [those that] remember thee in thy ways (behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned): in those is perpetuity, and we shall be saved. (Isa. 64:5)
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John 4:34• 34Jesus saith to them, It is my food that I should do the will of him that sent me, and finish his work. (John 4:34)
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Rom. 7:22• 22For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man, (Rom. 7:22)
destruction.
Prov. 21:12• 12The righteous considereth the house of the wicked:{HR}The wicked are overthrown to ruin. (Prov. 21:12)
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Prov. 5:20• 20And why shouldest thou, my son,{HR}Be ravished with a strange woman,{HR}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 upright one;{HR}But destruction to the workers of iniquity. (Prov. 10:29)
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Matt. 7:23• 23And then will I avow to them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work 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 practice 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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Elsewhere "righteous judgment."

W. Kelly Translation

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[It is] joy to the righteous to do justice,{HR}But destruction to the doers of iniquity.