Proverbs 21:15

Old Testament • 5 words with Strong's data

"It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity."

Word-by-Word Analysis

It is

שִׂמְחָה

simchâh

H8057

blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival)

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to the just to do

מִשְׁפָּט

mishpâṭ

H4941

properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind...

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but

שֶׁבֶר

sheber

H7667

a fracture, figuratively, ruin; specifically, a solution (of a dream)

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shall be to the

פָּעַל

pâʻal

H6466

to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise

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of

עָוֺן

ʻâvôn

H5771

perversity, i.e. (moral) evil

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Key Terms in This Verse

workers H6466

פָּעַל pâʻal

to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise

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destruction H7667

שֶׁבֶר sheber

a fracture, figuratively, ruin; specifically, a solution (of a dream)

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joy H8057

שִׂמְחָה simchâh

blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival)

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iniquity H5771

עָוֺן ʻâvôn

perversity, i.e. (moral) evil

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judgment H4941

מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ

properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the pla...

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Cross References

Proverbs 10:29 cross-reference

The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

Matthew 7:23 cross-reference

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Ecclesiastes 3:12 cross-reference

I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

Isaiah 64:5 cross-reference

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

Psalm 40:8 cross-reference

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

Proverbs 5:20 cross-reference

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Psalm 119:16 cross-reference

I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

Psalm 112:1 cross-reference

Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.

Proverbs 21:12 cross-reference

The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

John 4:34 cross-reference

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

Psalm 119:92 cross-reference

Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

Romans 7:22 cross-reference

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

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