Proverbs 24:22
Good News Translation
such people could be ruined in a moment. Do you realize the disaster that God or the king can cause?

New Revised Standard Version
for disaster comes from them suddenly, and who knows the ruin that both can bring?

Contemporary English Version
Who knows what sudden disaster the LORD or a ruler might bring?

New American Bible
For disaster will issue suddenly, and calamity from them both, who knows when?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For their destruction shall rise suddenly: and who knoweth the ruin of both?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For their destruction shall rise suddenly: and who knoweth the ruin of both?

their

Numbers 16:31-35 And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet: . . .

1 Samuel 31:1-7 And the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gelboe. . . .

2 Samuel 18:7,8 And the people of Israel were defeated there by David's army, and a great slaughter was made that day of twenty thousand men. . . .

2 Chronicles 13:16,17 And the children of Israel fled before Juda, and the Lord delivered them into their hand. . . .

Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.

Hosea 13:10,11 Where is thy king? now especially let him save thee in all thy cities: and thy judges, of whom thou saidst: Give me kings and princes. . . .

who

Proverbs 16:14 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: and the wise man will pacify it.

Proverbs 20:2 As the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread of a king: he that provoketh him, sinneth against his own soul.

Psalm 90:11 Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear

Context
Do not Envy
21My son, fear the Lord, and the king: and have nothing to do with detractors. 22For their destruction shall rise suddenly: and who knoweth the ruin of both?
Cross References
Proverbs 6:15
Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:

Proverbs 24:16
For a just man shall fall seven times, and shall rise again: but the wicked shall fall down into evil.

Proverbs 24:21
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