Proverbs 15:25

In 11 translations

BSB

The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.

KJV

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

WEB

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

ASV

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

LSV

YHWH pulls down the house of the proud, || And He sets up the border of the widow.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will strengthen the borders of the widow.

GNV

The Lord will destroye the house of the proude men: but hee will stablish the borders of the widowe.

JPS

The LORD will pluck up the house of the proud; but He will establish the border of the widow.

LXXE

The Lord pulls down the houses of scorners; but he establishes the border of the widow.

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Original-language editions

WLC

בֵּ֣ית גֵּ֭אִים יִסַּ֥ח ׀ יְהוָ֑ה וְ֝יַצֵּ֗ב גְּב֣וּל אַלְמָנָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Οἴκους ὑβριστῶν κατασπᾷ Κύριος, ἐστήρισε δὲ ὅριον χήρας.

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• Psalms 146:9The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
• Psalms 68:5–6A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation. God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
• Proverbs 14:11The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
• Proverbs 12:7The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the house of the righteous will stand.
• Proverbs 23:10Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
• Deuteronomy 10:17–18For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe. He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner,…
• Daniel 5:20But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.
• James 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
• Isaiah 2:12For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—
• Job 40:11–13Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low. Look on every proud man and humble him; trample the wicked where they stand. Bury them together in the dust; imprison them in the grave.
• Psalms 138:6Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.
• 1 Peter 5:5Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Psalms 52:5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
• Deuteronomy 19:14You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
• Psalms 52:1Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.

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