New Revised Standard Version
When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous, but dismay to evildoers.

Contemporary English Version
When justice is done, good citizens are glad and crooks are terrified.

New American Bible
When justice is done it is a joy for the just, downfall for evildoers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is joy to the just to do judgment: and dread to them that work iniquity.

It is joy to the just to do judgment: and dread to them that work iniquity.

joy

Job 29:12-17 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper. . . .

Psalm 40:8 That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

Psalm 112:1 Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight exceedingly in his commandments.

Psalm 119:16,92 I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words. . . .

Ecclesiastes 3:12 And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.

Isaiah 64:5 Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in them we have been always, and we shall be saved.

John 4:34 Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.

Romans 7:22 For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man:

destruction

Proverbs 21:12 The just considereth seriously the house of the wicked, that he may withdraw the wicked from evil.

Proverbs 5:20 The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.

Proverbs 10:29 The just shall never be moved: but the wicked shall not dwell on the earth.

Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.

Matthew 13:41,42 The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity. . . .

Luke 13:27,28 And he shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. . . .