Verse List for PROV 21:15

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OET (OET-RV) The godly person enjoys promoting justice, ⇔ ^ but brings terror to those doing wicked things.

OET-LV is_a _joy to_person to _do justice and_terror to_those _who_do _of (of)_wickedness.

ULT A joy for the righteous, is doing justice, ⇔ but a terror for doers of iniquity.

UST Righteous people are glad when people judge justly, ⇔  but judging justly terrifies people who act sinfully.

BSB & MSB Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, ⇔  but a terror to the workers of iniquity.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB It is joy to the righteous to do justice; ⇔  but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

NET Doing justice brings joy to the righteous ⇔ and terror to those who do evil.

LSV To do justice [is] joy to the righteous,
But ruin to workers of iniquity.

FBV When justice is done, the good are happy, but it brings terror to those who do evil.

T4T ⇔  Good/Righteous people are happy when they see others do what is just/fair, ⇔  but those who do what is evil are terrified when they think about what may happen to them.

LEB • It is a joy to the righteous to do justice,
• but dismay to those who do evil.

BBE It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.

Moff Justice done is a delight to good men, ⇔  and dismay to evildoers.

JPS To do justly is joy to the righteous, but ruin to the workers of iniquity.

ASV It is joy to the righteous to do justice; ⇔ But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

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

YLT To do justice [is] joy to the righteous, But ruin to workers of iniquity.

Drby It is joy to a righteous [man] to do what is right; but it is ruin for the workers of iniquity.

RV It is joy to the righteous to do judgment; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
(It is joy to the righteous to do judgement; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.)

SLT Joy to the just one to do judgment: and destruction to those working iniquity.

Wbstr It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

KJB-1769 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
(It is joy to the just to do judgement: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.)

KJB-1611 It is ioy to the iust to doe iudgement: but destruction shalbe to the workers of iniquitie.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps The iust delighteth in doing the thing that is right: but destruction shalbe to the workers of wickednesse.
(The just delighteth/delights in doing the thing that is right: but destruction shall be to the workers of wickedness.)

Gnva It is ioye to the iust to doe iudgement: but destruction shalbe to the workers of iniquitie.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation))

Cvdl The iust delyteth in doynge the thynge that is right, but the workers of wickednesse abhorre the same.
(The just delighteth/delights in doing the thing that is right, but the workers of wickedness abhor the same.)

Wycl It is ioye to a iust man to make doom; and it is drede to hem that worchen wickidnesse.
(It is joy to a just man to make judgement; and it is dread to them that working wickedness.)

Luth Es ist dem Gerechten eine Freude zu tun, was recht ist, aber eine Furcht den Übeltätern.
(It is to_him righteous_(ones) a/one joy/pleasure/delight to/for do/put, what/which right is, but a/one fear(n) the evildoers.)

ClVg Gaudium justo est facere judicium, et pavor operantibus iniquitatem.[fn]
(Gaudium just it_is to_do judgement, and terror/fear working_people iniquity.)

UHB שִׂמְחָ֣ה לַ֭⁠צַּדִּיק עֲשׂ֣וֹת מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּ֝⁠מְחִתָּ֗ה לְ⁠פֹ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃ ‡

BrLXX Εὐφροσύνη δικαίων ποιεῖν κρίμα, ὅσιος δὲ ἀκάθαρτος παρὰ κακούργοις.

BrTr It is the joy of the righteous to do judgment: but a holy man is abominable with evil-doers.