Proverbs 14:11 (BSB)

The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

From Proverbs 14. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 14:11

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 14:11: Note, 1. Sin is the ruin of great families: The house of the wicked, though built ever so strong and high, shall be overthrown, shall be brought to poverty and disgrace, and at length be extinct. His hope for heaven, the house on which he leans, shall not stand, but fail in the storm; the deluge that comes will sweep it away. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 14:11: The house of the wicked shall be overthrown,.... Houses built to perpetuate their names and eternize their memory; and which, though built high and stately, strong and firm, yet by one accident or another shall come to ruin, when they imagined they would continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations, Psa 49:11; or their families shall become extinct, none to be their...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 14:11: (Compare Pro 12:7). The contrast of the whole is enhanced by that of house and tabernacle, a permanent and a temporary dwelling.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 14:11: Pro 14:11 11 The house of the wicked is overthrown; But the tent of the upright flourishes. In the cogn. proverb, Pro 12:7, line 2 begins with וּבית, but here the apparently firmly-founded house is assigned to the godless, and on the contrary the tent, easily destroyed, and not set up under the delusion of lasting for ever, is assigned to the righteous.