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Proverbs 12:21

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

Proverbs 12:21 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Proverbs 12:21

Theological / Devotional

No evil. Probably in the sense that the harm that comes to the just man is turned into a blessing by the intervention of God (see Rom, 8:28).

Mischief. Heb. ra’, most frequently translated "evil." It may refer to moral evil, as in I Kings 11:6, or calamity, as in Ps. 141:5. In this verse calamity is evidently meant.

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