Proverbs 15:25

WEB

²⁵^[+] The LORD will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

KJV

²⁵The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

BSB

²⁵The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.

FBV

²⁵The Lord pulls down the house of the proud, but he protects the boundaries^[+] of the widow's property.

Extra References

Psalms 146:9

⁹The LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

⁵A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. ⁶God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

Deuteronomy 10:17-18

¹⁷For the LORD your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes. ¹⁸He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

Proverbs 23:10

¹⁰Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

Proverbs 12:7

⁷The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

Proverbs 14:11

¹¹The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

James 1:27

²⁷Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Daniel 5:20

²⁰But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

Isaiah 2:12

¹²For there will be a day of the LORD of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low—

Job 40:11-13

¹¹Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low. ¹²Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place. ¹³Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.