Proverbs 16:4
2 All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.
3 Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.
The LORD has made everything for His purpose— even the wicked for the day of disaster.
5 Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.
6 By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The LORD has made everything for His purpose— even the wicked for the day of disaster.
- KJV
- The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
- WEB
- The LORD has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
- ASV
- Jehovah hath made everything for its own end; Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
- DARBY
- Jehovah hath wrought everything on his own account, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
- BLB
- YHWH has made everything for its own end—even the wicked for the day of evil.
- ÅB
- Herren har gjort hver ting til dens øyemed, også den ugudelige til straffens dag.
- OTB
- Herren har laget alt for sitt eget formål, til og med de onde for ulykkens dag.
- B1930
- Herren har gjort hver ting til dens øiemed, også den ugudelige til straffens dag.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Peter 2:9
if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
Read in contextIsaiah 43:21
The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.
Read in contextRomans 9:22
What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
Read in contextIsaiah 43:7
everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
Read in context1 Peter 2:8
and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed.
Read in contextRevelation 4:11
“Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things; by Your will they exist and came to be.”
Read in context2 Peter 2:3
In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
Read in contextJob 21:30
Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
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