THEOSISNikolaj Velimirovic
O my brethren, how mighty and enduring is righteousness, and how puffed up and vain is unrighteousness, like a storm on a summer's day.
Proverbs 14:11Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The house of the wicked shall be destroyed: but the tabernacles of the just shall flourish.
בֵּ֣ית רְ֭שָׁעִים יִשָּׁמֵ֑ד וְאֹ֖הֶל יְשָׁרִ֣ים יַפְרִֽיחַ׃
The Church Fathers on this verse
2 Church Fathers comment on this verse
Ireneus (Orda)
The discerning individual recognizes that their well-being necessitates such conduct, leading to the flourishing of their household; in contrast, the wicked are deceived by an illusion of joy and ultimately create their own downfall.
Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 3:33Want is from the Lord in the house of the wicked: but the habitations of the just shall be blessed.
- Prov 12:7Turn the wicked, and they shall not be: but the house of the just shall stand firm.
- Matt 7:26And every one that heareth these my words and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand,
- Matt 7:27And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.
- Prov 21:12The just considereth seriously the house of the wicked, that he may withdraw the wicked from evil.
- Job 21:28For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
- Zech 5:4I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts: and it shall come to the house of the thief, and to the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with the timber thereof, and the stones thereof.
- Job 18:14Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him like a king.