Text -- Proverbs 12:7 (NET)

12:7 The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the righteous household will stand.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 12:7

¹ sn This proverb is about the stability of the righteous in times of trouble. The term “overthrown” might allude to Gen 19:21.

² tn Heb “and they are not.”

³ tn Heb “the house of the righteous.” The genitive צַדִּיקִים (tsadiqim) functions as an attributive adjective: “righteous house.” The noun בֵּית (bet, “house”) functions as a synecdoche of container (= house) for the contents (= family, household; perhaps household possessions). Cf. NCV “a good person’s family”; NLT “the children of the godly.”