Pro 21:12 | KingComments | STEP | “The righteous” is not deceived by what he sees of the house of the wicked. Often he sees the prosperity and wealth of it. However, he does not look at it superficially, but “considers the house”; he looks at it with the eyes of God. Then he sees that the prosperity of his house is temporary. When he looks with the eye of faith, he sees the end of the present moment’s prosperity. For there comes a time when God plunges the “wicked to ruin”. Everything on which they boasted and in which they found their rest is then changed into disaster and misery, which are not temporary, but eternal. That a moment is coming when the Judge of all the earth will do justice is an encouragement to the righteous to endure poverty and suffering.

‏ Proverbs 21:12

Turned to Ruin

“The righteous” is not deceived by what he sees of the house of the wicked. Often he sees the prosperity and wealth of it. However, he does not look at it superficially, but “considers the house”; he looks at it with the eyes of God. Then he sees that the prosperity of his house is temporary. When he looks with the eye of faith, he sees the end of the present moment’s prosperity.

For there comes a time when God plunges the “wicked to ruin”. Everything on which they boasted and in which they found their rest is then changed into disaster and misery, which are not temporary, but eternal. That a moment is coming when the Judge of all the earth will do justice is an encouragement to the righteous to endure poverty and suffering.