Proverbs 21:7

The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment. THE ROBBERY OF (I:E., PERPETRATED BY) THE WICKED SHALL DESTROY THEM, [OR ELSE SHALL MAKE THEM TO FEAR: FROM guwr (H1481 ) (GEJER): MAURER TAKES IT FROM gaarar (H1641 ), AS IN HABAKKUK 1:15 , SHALL SWEEP THEM AWAY AS FISH GATHERED IN A NET; BUT KIMCHI, IN THE SENSE SHALL DESTROY THEM AS WITH A SAW]; BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO DO JUDGMENT. They sin not through ignorance or precipitancy, but willfully through wantonness. Doing justice toward our neighbour is one test of our sincerity of faith toward God....

Verse Proverbs 21:7. _THE ROBBERY OF THE WICKED_] The wicked shall be _terrified_ and _ruined_ by the means they use to aggrandize themselves. And as they refuse to do judgment, they shall have judgment without mercy....

ROBBERY - Probably the “violence” which the wicked practice. SHALL DESTROY THEM - More literally, carries them away....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 21:1 THE KING'S HEART IS IN THE HAND OF THE LORD, AS THE RIVERS OF WATER. We are to think of the little channels used for irrigation. As these are altogether under the gardener's control, so the heart of the king, who might seem to have no superior, is directed by God. HE TURNETH IT WHITHERSOEVER HE WILL. By hidden influences and providential arrangements God disposes the monarch to order his government so as to carry out his designs, to spread around joy and plenty. The system of irrigation signified in this passage is still to be seen in Eastern lands. "Flower beds and gardens of herbs are always made at a little lower level than the surrounding ground, and are divided into small squares, a slight edging of earth banking the whole round on each side. Water is then let in, and floods the entire sur

THE ROBBERY OF THE WICKED SHALL DESTROY THEM,.... Or cut them, so Ben Melech: dissect or "saw" s them; cut them to the heart; that is, when the sins they have been guilty of, in robbing God of his due, or doing injury to men in their properties, cheating them or stealing from them, are set home on their consciences, they are in the utmost agonies and distress; it is as if a saw was drawn to and fro over them, and will be their case for ever without true repentance: this is the worm that never dies, and the fire that is never quenched; this is everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and is very just and righteous; BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO DO JUDGMENT; to do that which is just between man and man, to let everyone enjoy his own property: as it is true of private robbers, so of men in public offices, whose business it is to defend men in the quiet possession of property; which,...

CHAPTER 21 PERSONAL INSTRUCTIONS AS TO LIFE AND CONDUCT In the proverbs of this chapter the Lord is mentioned five times. “The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: He turneth it whithersoever He will” Proverbs 21:1). The rivers of water are “water-courses,” the irrigation system known to the ancients, opening and shutting sluices directed the flow of the waters. Thus the Lord governs the king's heart as He directs the affairs of men. The Lord pondereth the hearts Proverbs 21:2). The same truth is stated in Proverbs 16:2; self-justification suits the natural man but the Lord testeth all hearts. How well it is to remember in all our conduct, that truth, so comforting to the believer, expr

PROVERBS 21:1. WATERCOURSES: not the natural brooks and wadys of Palestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia, which could be diverted in any direction at will. Proverbs 21:4. Apparently two unconnected lines belonging to different couplets. A connexion can be established only by forced exegesis. The Heb. is lit. lofty of look and arrogant of heart, the tillage of the wicked is sin. RV lamp for tillage depends on a different pointing, but does not improve the sense. Proverbs 21:6. Lit. The getting of treasures by a lying tongue (is) a driven breath, seekers of death. RV clearly inserts more than the text warrants to make sense of...

ROBBERY. rapacity. Illustrations: the princes of Judah (Isaiah 1:23; Isaiah 1:24); the Jews (Jeremiah 7:9; Jeremiah 7:15; Jeremiah 34:10.Micah 3:9; Micah 3:9)....

_robbery_ Rather, VIOLENCE. _destroy them_ Rather, SWEEP THEM UP, or CATCH THEM, as fishes, for example, in a net. Comp. Habakkuk 1:15, where the same Heb. word is used....

THE ROBBERY OF THE WICKED SHALL DESTROY THEM— _The ruin_ or _desolation of the wicked shall affright them_ (they shall be desolated, ruined, ravaged, and terrified); _because they would not follow justice._...