Proverbs 15:25
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
KJV
Domum superborum demolietur Dominus, et firmos faciet terminos viduæ.
Vulgate
οἴκους ὑβριστῶν κατασπᾷ Κύριος, ἐστήρισεν δὲ ὅριον χήρας.
LXX
Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.
ASV
בֵּ֣ית גֵּ֭אִים יִסַּ֥ח יְהוָ֑ה וְ֝/יַצֵּ֗ב גְּב֣וּל אַלְמָנָֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אַלְמָנָ֖ה
'lmnh
noun · 56×
בֵּ֣ית
byt
noun · 2032×
גְּב֣וּל
gbvl
noun · 239×
גֵּאִֽים
g'ym
adjective · 8×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
נִסַּחְתֶּם֙
nschtm
verb · 4×
נִצָּ֥ב
ntsb
verb · 74×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Pet 5:5 — 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.
- Dan 5:20 — 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:
- Deut 10:17 — 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:
- Isa 2:12 — 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:
- Jas 1:27 — 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.
- Job 40:11 — Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
- Mark 7:21 — For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
- Prov 12:7 — The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
- Prov 14:11 — The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
- Prov 23:10 — Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
- Ps 68:5 — A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
- Ps 138:6 — Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
- Ps 146:9 — The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
- Ps 146:9 — The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.