Proverbs 15:6
Good News Translation
Righteous people keep their wealth, but the wicked lose theirs when hard times come.

New Revised Standard Version
In the house of the righteous there is much treasure, but trouble befalls the income of the wicked.

Contemporary English Version
Good people become wealthy, but those who are evil will lose what they have.

New American Bible
In the house of the just there are ample resources, but the harvest of the wicked is in peril.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The house of the just is very much strength: and in the fruits of the wicked is trouble.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The house of the just is very much strength: and in the fruits of the wicked is trouble.

the house

Proverbs 15:16 Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasures without content.

Proverbs 8:21 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.

Proverbs 13:22 The good man leaveth heirs, sons, and grandsons: and the substance of the sinner is kept for the just.

Proverbs 21:20 There is a treasure to be desired, and oil in the dwelling of the just: and the foolish man shall spend it.

Psalm 112:3 Glory and wealth shall be in his house: and his justice remaineth for ever and ever.

Hebrews 11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasure of the Egyptians. For he looked unto the reward.

in the revenues

Proverbs 10:22 A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport: but wisdom is prudence to a man.

Proverbs 16:8 Better is a little with justice, than great revenues with iniquity.

Job 20:19-23 Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build. . . .

Psalm 37:16 Better is a little to the just, than the great riches of the wicked.

Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind.

Ecclesiastes 5:10-14 A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity. . . .

James 5:1-3 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. . . .

Context
A Gentle Answer Turns Away Wrath
5A fool laugheth at the instruction of his father: but he that regardeth reproofs shall become prudent. In abundant justice there is the greatest strength: but the devices of the wicked shall be rooted out. 6The house of the just is very much strength: and in the fruits of the wicked is trouble.7The lips of the wise shall disperse knowledge: the heart of fools shall be unlike.…
Cross References
Proverbs 8:21
The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.

Proverbs 15:5
A fool laugheth at the instruction of his father: but he that regardeth reproofs shall become prudent. In abundant justice there is the greatest strength: but the devices of the wicked shall be rooted out.

Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise shall disperse knowledge: the heart of fools shall be unlike.

Proverbs 15:5
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