Proverbs 14:11
Good News Translation
A good person's house will still be standing after an evildoer's house has been destroyed.

New Revised Standard Version
The house of the wicked is destroyed, but the tent of the upright flourishes.

Contemporary English Version
The tent of a good person stands longer than the house of someone evil.

New American Bible
The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The house of the wicked shall be destroyed: but the tabernacles of the just shall flourish.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The house of the wicked shall be destroyed: but the tabernacles of the just shall flourish.

house

Proverbs 3:33 He shall scorn the scorners, and to the meek he will give grace.

Proverbs 12:7 A man shall be known by his learning: but he that is vain and foolish, shall be exposed to contempt.

Proverbs 21:12 The just considereth seriously the house of the wicked, that he may withdraw the wicked from evil.

Job 8:15 He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:

Job 15:34 For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.

Job 18:14,15,21 Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him like a king. . . .

Job 20:26-28 All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle. . . .

Job 21:28 For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

Job 27:13-23 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty. . . .

Zechariah 5:4 I 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.

Matthew 7:26,27 And every one that heareth these my words and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand, . . .

the tabernacle

Proverbs 11:28 He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the winds: and the fool shall serve the wise.

Proverbs 21:20 There is a treasure to be desired, and oil in the dwelling of the just: and the foolish man shall spend it.

Job 8:6 If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:

Psalm 112:2,3 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the righteous shall be blessed. . . .

Psalm 128:3 Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

Isaiah 58:11,12 And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not fail. . . .

Context
The Wise Woman
10The heart that knoweth the bitterness of his own soul, in his joy the stranger shall not intermeddle. 11The house of the wicked shall be destroyed: but the tabernacles of the just shall flourish.12There is a way which seemeth just to a man: but the ends thereof lead to death.…
Cross References
Job 8:15
He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:

Proverbs 15:25
The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will strengthen the borders of the widow.

Proverbs 21:12
The just considereth seriously the house of the wicked, that he may withdraw the wicked from evil.

Proverbs 14:10
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