Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 12:7
The wicked are overthrown, and [are] not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
7. the wicked are overthrown ] Lit. to overthrow the wicked! It is only to overthrow them, and they cease to exist; they have no stay, no power of recovery in them. Comp. Pro 10:25; Psa 37:9-10; Psa 37:35-38.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Pro 12:7
But the house of the righteous shall stand.
Virtuous kindred
I. In the first place, the circumstance of belonging to the house of the righteous, is a great security that the early principles which so commonly decide the character of the man, have been the subjects of a judicious and anxious attention. The child of such a house cannot have been left to collect from the chance companions of after-life those important truths upon the knowledge of which so much depends.
II. It is a second advantage belonging to the house of the righteous that the companions and examples furnished by it are likely to have a powerful influence in deepening every good impression, and recommending every valuable lesson received in it.
III. It is another privilege belonging to an early education in the house of the righteous that virtue is there seen from the first in its own lovely form, and its influence felt to be full of calm and lasting enjoyment.
IV. Another of these advantages is the additional motive felt in such a connection to respectable conduct–to conduct which may recommend us to the continued regard of the numerous and friendly witnesses who, with anxious interest, are watching our progress. (J. G. Robberds.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 7. The wicked are overthrown] Seldom does God give such a long life or numerous offspring.
But the house of the righteous shall stand.] God blesses their progeny, and their families continue long in the earth; whereas the wicked seldom have many generations in a direct line. This is God’s mercy, that the entail of iniquity may be in some sort cut off, so that the same vices may not be strengthened by successive generations. For generally the bad root produces not only a bad plant, but one worse than itself.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Are not; both they and their families shall suddenly perish. The house; the family or posterity.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
7. Such conduct brings a properreturn, by the destruction of the wicked and well-being of therighteous and his family.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The wicked are overthrown, and [are] not,…. With such an overthrow as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. The kingdom of the beast shall not only be full of darkness, as at the pouring of the fifth vial, and be in the utmost confusion, but it shall be brought to ruin and destruction; which stands opposed to “the house of the righteous”, in the next clause: the ten kings, the supporters of antichrist, shall be overcome by the Lamb, with whom they will make war; the beast, and the false prophet, shall be taken by him, and destroyed; and Babylon shall sink like a millstone into the sea, and be no more; the wicked shall be consumed out of the earth; these Heathens shall be no more in the land; the man of sin shall never revive again;
but the house of the righteous shall stand; not his material dwelling house; nor the earthly house of his tabernacle, his body; nor his family, as the generality of interpreters, for the family of the righteous may be extinct, and especially not continue as righteous; but the church of God, as the gloss upon the text, the house of the living God, the pillar and ground of truth; the church which is built on the Rock, Christ; the mountain of the Lord’s house, which shall be established upon the top of the mountains in the latter day, when the kingdom of antichrist shall be overthrown, and be no more. This is the same with the household of faith, and the household of God, and here called “the house of the righteous”; because they dwell in it, have a place and a name in it better than sons and daughters; and indeed none but they ought to be in it, that have on the wedding garment, the robe of Christ’s righteousness; and who walk uprightly, and work righteousness. Now this house shall stand; its foundation, which is Christ, is sure, an everlasting one; its pillars are firm and stable, the ministers of the word, who will be to the end of the world; the ordinances of it will continue till Christ’s second coming; the doctrines of it are the word of God, which standeth for ever, when all flesh is as grass. This house stands, notwithstanding all the persecutions of men; it has stood against all the fury of Rome, Pagan and Papal, and still will continue, notwithstanding the craft of false teachers to undermine it; and though it may sometimes be in a waste and ruinous condition seemingly, yet the Lord will raise it up again, and glorify this house of his glory, and make it beautiful and honourable: it shall stand, because it is the Lord’s house, of his building, and where he delights to dwell in; because it is the house of Christ, which he, Wisdom, has built; and where he presides as a Son, as a Prophet, Priest, and King; and because it is the house where his people are born and brought up, and therefore shall continue tilt everyone are brought in; and because it is built on a rock, against which the gates of hell cannot prevail, Mt 16:18; compare with this Mt 7:24.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
7 The godless are overturned and are no more,
But the house of the righteous stands.
Bertheau and Zckler explain: The wicked turn about, then are they no more; i.e., as we say: it is over with them “in the turning of a hand.” The noun in the inf. absol. may certainly be the subject, like Pro 17:12, as well as the object (Ewald, 328c), and may be used of the turning about of oneself, Psa 78:9; 2Ki 5:26; 2Ch 9:12. That explanation also may claim for itself that nowhere occurs with a personal object, if we except one questionable passage, Isa 1:7. But here the interpretation of the as the object lies near the contrast of , and moreover the interpretation of the , not in the sense of (lxx), but of (Syr., Targ., Jerome, Graec. Venet., Luther), lies near the contrast of . The inf. absol. thus leaves the power from which the catastrophe proceeds indefinite, as the pass. would also leave it, and the act designedly presented in a vague manner to connect with the certain consequences therewith, as Pro 25:4., as if to say: there comes only from some quarter an unparalleled overthrow which overwhelms the godless; thus no rising up again is to be thought on, it is all over with them; while, on the contrary, the house of the righteous withstands the storm which sweeps away the godless.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
We are here taught as before (Pro 12:3; Pro 10:25; Pro 10:30), 1. That the triumphing of the wicked is short. They may be exalted for a while, but in a little time they are overthrown and are not; their trouble proves their overthrow, and those who made a great show disappear, and their place knows them no more. Turn the wicked, and they are not; they stand in such a slippery place that the least touch of trouble brings them down, like the apples of Sodom, which look fair, but touch them and they go to dust. 2. That the prosperity of the righteous has a good bottom and will endure. Death will remove them, but their house shall stand, their families shall be kept up, and the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary
Security Or Destruction
Verse 7 contrasts the enduring security of the righteous with the doom of the wicked. See comments on Pro 10:25; Pro 12:3.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
(7) The wicked are overthrown.By the righteous judgments of God (Psa. 37:35-36), or by the storms of temptation and trouble, which, when they come, overwhelm the house built on the sand of earthly hopes, and not on the Rock of ages. (Isa. 26:4; Mat. 7:24, sqq.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
7. Are not Are no more there is nothing left of them. Compare Pro 10:25; Est 9:6; Job 5:3; Job 18:15; Job 27:18; Psa 37:10; Psa 37:37; Psa 73:18; Mat 7:27.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
v. 7. The wicked are overthrown and are not,
Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann
Pro 12:7 The wicked are overthrown, and [are] not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Ver. 7. The wicked are overthrown, and are not. ] Say that the righteous cannot prevail by their apologies for themselves and others, God will take the matter into his own hand, and avenge them, Luk 18:7 as he did the primitive Christians and the French Protestants, upon their merciless persecutors.
“ Tu, vero, Herodes sanguinolente, time. ”
As Beza warned Charles IX, author of the massacre.
But the house of the righteous shall stand.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
overthrown. Compare Gen 19:21, Gen 19:25, Gen 19:29; 2Sa 10:3. 1Ch 19:3, &c.
and are not = there is nothing of them left.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Pro 12:7
Pro 12:7
“The wicked are overthrown, and are not; But the house of the righteous shall stand.”
Toy’s rendition of this is: “The wicked are overthrown and vanish, but the house of the righteous stands.” “We have here another assurance of the instability of evil.”
Pro 12:7. Similar in message to Pro 12:3. In Pro 12:6 the wicked were out to overthrow others; in this verse they themselves are overthrown, and the righteous who in Pro 12:6 were out to deliver others are in this verse themselves established. Read the New Testament account of this (Mat 7:24-27).
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
wicked: Pro 11:21, Pro 14:11, Pro 15:25, Est 9:6-10, Est 9:14, Job 5:3, Job 5:4, Job 11:20, Job 18:15-20, Job 27:18-23, Psa 37:10, Psa 37:35-37, Psa 73:18, Psa 73:19
the house: Pro 14:1, Pro 24:3, Pro 24:4, 2Sa 7:16, 2Sa 7:26, Mat 7:24-27
Reciprocal: Job 8:13 – the hypocrite’s Psa 34:13 – speaking Psa 62:6 – I shall Jer 10:20 – my children