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Proverbs 15:25 King James Version (KJV)

25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.


Proverbs 15:25 King James Version with Strong's Concordance (STRONG)

25 The LORD H3068 will destroy H5255 the house H1004 of the proud: H1343 but he will establish H5324 the border H1366 of the widow. H490


Proverbs 15:25 American Standard (ASV)

25 Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.


Proverbs 15:25 Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

25 The house of the proud Jehovah pulleth down, And He setteth up the border of the widow.


Proverbs 15:25 Darby English Bible (DARBY)

25 Jehovah plucketh up the house of the proud; but he establisheth the boundary of the widow.


Proverbs 15:25 World English Bible (WEB)

25 Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, But he will keep the widow's borders intact.


Proverbs 15:25 Bible in Basic English (BBE)

25 The house of the man of pride will be uprooted by the Lord, but he will make safe the heritage of the widow.

Cross Reference

Psalms 146:9 KJV

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Proverbs 23:10 KJV

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Psalms 68:5-6 KJV

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Proverbs 12:7 KJV

The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

Proverbs 14:11 KJV

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

Deuteronomy 10:17-18 KJV

For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

James 1:27 KJV

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Deuteronomy 19:14 KJV

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Job 40:11-13 KJV

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him. Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

Psalms 52:5 KJV

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

Psalms 138:6 KJV

Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

Isaiah 2:12 KJV

For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

Daniel 5:20 KJV

But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

1 Peter 5:5 KJV

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Psalms 52:1 KJV

Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

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Commentary on Proverbs 15 Keil & Delitzsch Commentary


Verses 1-6

We take these verses together as forming a group which begins with a proverb regarding the good and evil which flows from the tongue, and closes with a proverb regarding the treasure in which blessing is found, and that in which no blessing is found.

Proverbs 15:1

1 A soft answer turneth away wrath,

And a bitter word stirreth up anger.

In the second line, the common word for anger ( אף , from the breathing with the nostrils, Proverbs 14:17) is purposely placed, but in the first, that which denotes anger in the highest degree ( חמה from יחם , cogn. חמם , Arab. hamiya , to glow, like שׁנה from ישׁן ): a mild, gentle word turns away the heat of anger ( excandescentiam ), puts it back, cf. Proverbs 25:15. The Dagesh in רּך follows the rule of the דחיק , i.e. , of the close connection of a word terminating with the accented eh, aah, ah with the following word ( Michlol 63b). The same is the meaning of the Latin proverb:

Frangitur ira gravis

Quando est responsio suavis