Proverbs 15:25
Good News Translation
The LORD will destroy the homes of arrogant men, but he will protect a widow's property.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but maintains the widow’s boundaries.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD destroys the homes of those who are proud, but he protects the property of widows.

New American Bible
The LORD pulls down the house of the proud, but preserves intact the widow’s landmark.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will strengthen the borders of the widow.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

destroy

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

Proverbs 14:11 The house of the wicked shall be destroyed: but the tabernacles of the just shall flourish.

Job 40:11-13 Scatter the proud in thy indignation, and behold every arrogant man, and humble him. . . .

Psalm 52:1,5 Unto the end, understanding for David, [2] When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul: David went to the house of Achimelech. [3] Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity? . . .

Psalm 138:6 For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off.

Isaiah 2:12 Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he shall be humbled.

Daniel 5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto pride, he was put down from the throne of his kingdom, and his glory was taken away.

1 Peter 5:5 In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

but

Deuteronomy 10:17,18 Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a great God and mighty and terrible, who accepteth no person nor taketh bribes. . . .

Psalm 68:5,6 Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place: . . .

Psalm 146:9 The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

James 1:27 Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

Context
A Gentle Answer Turns Away Wrath
24The path of life is above for the wise, that he may decline from the lowest hell. 25The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will strengthen the borders of the widow.26Evil thoughts are an abomination to the Lord: and pure words most beautiful shall be confirmed by him.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14
Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour's landmark, which thy predecessors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God will give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess.

Psalm 68:5
Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place:

Psalm 146:9
The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

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

Proverbs 14:11
The house of the wicked shall be destroyed: but the tabernacles of the just shall flourish.

Proverbs 15:26
Evil thoughts are an abomination to the Lord: and pure words most beautiful shall be confirmed by him.

Proverbs 23:10
Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:

Proverbs 15:24
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