Proverbs 12:7
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
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…
Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714
Matthew Henry
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;…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the wicked are overthrown Lit. to overthrow the wicked! It is only to overthrow them, and they cease to exist; they have no stay, no power of recovery in them. Comp. Pro 10:25; Psa 37:9-10; Psa…
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