Proverbs 28:12
Good News Translation
When good people come to power, everybody celebrates, but when bad people rule, people stay in hiding.

New Revised Standard Version
When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked prevail, people go into hiding.

Contemporary English Version
When an honest person wins, it's time to celebrate; when crooks are in control, it's best to hide.

New American Bible
When the just triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked prevail, people hide.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the joy of the just there is great glory: when the wicked reign, men are ruined.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In the joy of the just there is great glory: when the wicked reign, men are ruined.

righteous

Proverbs 28:28 When the wicked rise up, men shall hide themselves: when they perish, the just shall be multiplied.

Proverbs 11:10 By the blessing of the just the city shall be exalted: and by the mouth of the wicked it shall be overthrown.

Proverbs 29:2 When just men increase, the people shall rejoice: when the wicked shall bear rule, the people shall mourn.

1 Chronicles 15:25-28 So David and all the ancients of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the house of Obededom with joy. . . .

1 Chronicles 16:7 In that day David made Asaph the chief to give praise to the Lord with his brethren.

1 Chronicles 29:20-22 And David commanded all the assembly: Bless ye the Lord our God. And all the assembly blessed the Lord the God of their fathers: and they bowed themselves and worshipped God, and then the king. . . .

2 Chronicles 7:10 So on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent away the people to their dwellings, joyful and glad for the good that the Lord had done to David, and to Solomon, and to all Israel his people.

2 Chronicles 30:22-27 And Ezechias spoke to the heart of all the Levites, that had good understanding concerning the Lord: and they ate during the seven days of the solemnity, immolating victims of peace offerings, and praising the Lord the God of their fathers. . . .

Esther 8:15-17 And Mardochai going forth out of the palace, and from the king's presence, shone in royal apparel, to wit, of violet and sky colour, wearing a golden crown on his head, and clothed with a cloak of silk and purple. And all the city rejoiced, and was glad. . . .

Job 29:11-20 The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me: . . .

Luke 19:37,38 And when he was now coming near the descent of Mount Olivet, the whole multitude of his disciples began with joy to praise God with a loud voice, for all the mighty works they had seen, . . .

but

1 Samuel 24:11 Moreover, see and know, O my father, the hem of thy robe in my hand, that when I cut off the hem of thy robe, I would not put out my hand against thee. Reflect, and see, that there is no evil in my hand, nor iniquity, neither have I sinned against thee: but thou liest in wait for my life, to take it away.

1 Kings 17:3 Get thee hence, and go towards the east, and hide thyself by the torrent of Carith, which is over against the Jordan;

1 Kings 18:13 Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord; how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water?

1 Kings 19:3 Then EIias was afraid, and rising up, he went whithersoever he had a mind: and he came to Bersabee of Juda, and left his servant there,

Ecclesiastes 10:6,16 A fool set in high dignity, and the rich sitting beneath. . . .

Jeremiah 36:26 And the king commanded Jeremiel the son of Amelech, and Saraias the son of Ezriel, and Selemias the son of Abdeel, to take up Baruch the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord hid them.

Hebrews 11:37,38 They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted: . . .

hidden or sought for

Jeremiah 5:1 Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that executeth judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.

Context
The Boldness of the Righteous
11The rich man seemeth to himself wise: but the poor man that is prudent shall search him out. 12In the joy of the just there is great glory: when the wicked reign, men are ruined.13He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that shall confess, and forsake them, shall obtain mercy.…
Cross References
Proverbs 11:10
By the blessing of the just the city shall be exalted: and by the mouth of the wicked it shall be overthrown.

Proverbs 28:28
When the wicked rise up, men shall hide themselves: when they perish, the just shall be multiplied.

Proverbs 29:2
When just men increase, the people shall rejoice: when the wicked shall bear rule, the people shall mourn.

Ecclesiastes 10:5
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were by an error proceeding from the face of the prince:

Ecclesiastes 10:6
A fool set in high dignity, and the rich sitting beneath.

Proverbs 28:11
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