Proverbs 12:7 {8}
Good News Translation
The wicked meet their downfall and leave no descendants, but the families of the righteous live on.

New Revised Standard Version
The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.

Contemporary English Version
Once the wicked are defeated, they are gone forever, but no one who obeys God will ever be thrown down.

New American Bible
Overthrow the wicked and they are no more, but the house of the just stands firm.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A man shall be known by his learning: but he that is vain and foolish, shall be exposed to contempt.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A man shall be known by his learning: but he that is vain and foolish, shall be exposed to contempt.

wicked

Proverbs 11:21 A golden ring in a swine's snout, a woman fair and foolish.

Proverbs 14:11 The house of the wicked shall be destroyed: but the tabernacles of the just shall flourish.

Proverbs 15:25 The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will strengthen the borders of the widow.

Esther 9:6-10,14 Insomuch that even in Susan they killed five hundred men, besides the ten sons of Aman the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews: whose names are these: . . .

Job 5:3,4 I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately. . . .

Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.

Job 18:15-20 Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent. . . .

Job 27:18-23 He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth. . . .

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Psalm 37:10,35-37 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it. . . .

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Psalm 73:18,19 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down. . . .

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the house

Proverbs 14:1 A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built.

Proverbs 24:3,4 By wisdom the house shall be built, and by prudence it shall be strengthened. . . .

2 Samuel 7:16,26 And thy house shall be faithful, and thy kingdom for ever before thy face, and thy throne shall be firm for ever. . . .

Matthew 7:24-27 Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, . . .

Context
Loving Discipline and Knowledge
6Turn the wicked, and they shall not be: but the house of the just shall stand firm. 7A man shall be known by his learning: but he that is vain and foolish, shall be exposed to contempt.8Better is the poor man that provideth for himself, than he that is glorious and wanteth bread.…
Cross References
Matthew 7:24
Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock,

Job 34:25
For he knoweth their works: and therefore he shall bring night on them, and they shall be destroyed.

Proverbs 10:25
As vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that sent him.

Proverbs 12:8
Better is the poor man that provideth for himself, than he that is glorious and wanteth bread.

Proverbs 15:25
The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will strengthen the borders of the widow.

Proverbs 12:6
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