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Proverbs 12:7

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12:7 The wicked are overthrown 1  and perish, 2 

but the righteous household 3  will stand.

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[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.

[12:7]  2 tn Heb “and they are not.”

[12:7]  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.”



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