Proverbs 15:25 The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but he sets the widow's boundary stones in place.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but he sets the widow's boundary stones in place.

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

New American Standard Bible
The LORD will tear down the house of the proud, But He will establish the boundary of the widow.

King James Bible
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD destroys the house of the proud, but He protects the widow's territory.

International Standard Version
The house of the proud the LORD will demolish, but he will protect the widow's boundary line.

American Standard Version
Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.

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

Darby Bible Translation
Jehovah plucketh up the house of the proud; but he establisheth the boundary of the widow.

Young's Literal Translation
The house of the proud Jehovah pulleth down, And He setteth up the border of the widow.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 19:14
You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess it.

Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Psalm 146:9
The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

Proverbs 12:7
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

Proverbs 14:11
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

Proverbs 15:26
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

15:25. Pride is the ruin of multitudes. But those who are in affliction God will support. 26. The thoughts of wicked men offend Him who knows the heart. 27. The covetous man lets none of his family have rest or enjoyment. And greediness of gain often tempts to projects that bring ruin. 28. A good man is proved to be a wise man by this; he governs his tongue well.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

25. The most desolate who have God's aid have more permanent good than the self-reliant sinner (Pr 2:22; 12:7).

border—or, "boundary for possessions" (Ps 78:54).