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Proverbs 21:15
It is ioye to the iust to doe iudgement: but destruction shalbe to the workers of iniquitie.
Proverbs 21:15 · Geneva Bible
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Proverbs 21:15 in other translations
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.
It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
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In context
12 The righteous teacheth the house of the wicked: but God ouerthroweth the wicked for their euill.
13 He that stoppeth his eare at the crying of the poore, he shall also cry and not be heard.
14 A gift in secret pacifieth anger, and a gift in the bosome great wrath.
15 It is ioye to the iust to doe iudgement: but destruction shalbe to the workers of iniquitie.
16 A man that wandreth out of the way of wisdome, shall remaine in the congregation of the dead.
17 Hee that loueth pastime, shalbe a poore man: and he that loueth wine and oyle, shall not be riche.
18 The wicked shalbe a ransome for the iust, and the transgressour for the righteous.
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