Proverbs 12:7 (BSB)

The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the house of the righteous will stand.

From Proverbs 12. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 12:7

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 12:7: We are here taught as before (Pro 12:3 and Pro 10:25, Pro 10:30), 1. That the triumphing of the wicked is short. They may be exalted for a while, but in a little time they are overthrown and are not; their trouble proves their overthrow, and those who made a great show disappear, and their place knows them no more.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 12:7: The wicked are overthrown, and are not,.... With such an overthrow as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. The kingdom of the beast shall not only be full of darkness, as at the pouring of the fifth vial, and be in the utmost confusion, but it shall be brought to ruin and destruction; which stands opposed to "the house of the righteous", in the next clause...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 12:7: Such conduct brings a proper return, by the destruction of the wicked and well-being of the righteous and his family.
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 12:7: Pro 12:7 7 The godless are overturned and are no more, But the house of the righteous stands. Bertheau and Zöckler explain: The wicked turn about, then are they no more; i.e., as we say: it is over with them “in the turning of a hand.” The noun in the inf. absol.