Proverbs 3:33 {34}
Good News Translation
The LORD puts a curse on the homes of the wicked, but blesses the homes of the righteous.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the abode of the righteous.

Contemporary English Version
He places a curse on the home of everyone who is evil, but he blesses the home of every good person.

New American Bible
The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but the dwelling of the just he blesses;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall scorn the scorners, and to the meek he will give grace.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He shall scorn the scorners, and to the meek he will give grace.

curse

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

Leviticus 26:14 But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments:

Deuteronomy 7:26 Neither shalt thou bring any thing of the idol into thy house, lest thou become an anathema, like it. Thou shalt detest it as dung, and shalt utterly abhor it as uncleanness and filth, because it is an anathema.

Deuteronomy 28:15 But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.

Deuteronomy 29:19 And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty,

Joshua 6:18 But beware ye lest you touch ought of those things that are forbidden, and you be guilty of transgression, and all the camp of Israel be under sin, and be troubled.

Joshua 7:13 Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them: Be ye sanctified against tomorrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel: The curse is in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy enemies, till he be destroyed out of thee, that is defiled with this wickedness.

Psalm 37:22 For such as bless him shall inherit the land: but such as curse him shall perish.

Zechariah 5:3,4 And he said to me: This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the earth: for every thief shall be judged as is there written: and every one that sweareth in like manner shall be judged by it. . . .

Malachi 2:2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.

he blesseth

Deuteronomy 28:2 And all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee: yet so if thou hear his precepts.

2 Samuel 6:11 And the ark of the Lord abode in the house of Obededom the Gethite three months: and the Lord blessed Obededom, and all his household.

Job 8:6,7 If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable: . . .

Psalm 1:3 And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Psalm 91:10 There shall no evil come to thee: nor shall the scourge come near thy dwelling.

Context
The Blessings of Wisdom
32Want is from the Lord in the house of the wicked: but the habitations of the just shall be blessed. 33He shall scorn the scorners, and to the meek he will give grace.34The wise shall possess glory: the promotion of fools is disgrace.…
Cross References
Leviticus 26:14
But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments:

Leviticus 26:16
I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies.

Deuteronomy 11:28
A curse, if you obey not the commandments of the Lord your God, but revolt from the way which now I shew you, and walk after strange gods which you know not.

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 1:3
And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Psalm 37:22
For such as bless him shall inherit the land: but such as curse him shall perish.

Zechariah 5:3
And he said to me: This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the earth: for every thief shall be judged as is there written: and every one that sweareth in like manner shall be judged by it.

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.

Malachi 2:2
If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.

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