Proverbs 16:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The LORD has worked everything for his own ends– even the wicked for the day of disaster.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 9:22 : 22 But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?
  • 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 and a stumbling-stone and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
  • Isa 43:21 : 21 the people whom I formed for myself, so they might praise me.”
  • Isa 43:7 : 7 everyone who belongs to me, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed– yes, whom I made!
  • Rom 11:36 : 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 – if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment,
  • Rev 4:11 : 11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, since you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created!”
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.
  • Job 21:30 : 30 that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?

Similar Verses (AI)

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    2Yet he too is wise and he will bring disaster; he does not retract his decree. He will attack the wicked nation, and the nation that helps those who commit sin.

  • Prov 16:3
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    3Commit your works to the LORD, and your plans will be established.

  • Isa 45:7
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    7I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the LORD, who accomplishes all these things.

  • Job 21:30
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    30that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?

  • Eccl 3:11
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    11God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.

  • Ps 9:16
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    16The LORD revealed himself; he accomplished justice; the wicked were ensnared by their own actions.(Higgaion. Selah)

  • Eccl 3:16-17
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    16The Problem of Injustice and Oppression I saw something else on earth: In the place of justice, there was wickedness, and in the place of fairness, there was wickedness.

    17I thought to myself,“God will judge both the righteous and the wicked; for there is an appropriate time for every activity, and there is a time of judgment for every deed.

  • Eccl 7:13-15
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    13Wisdom Acknowledges God’s Orchestration of Life Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent?

    14In times of prosperity be joyful, but in times of adversity consider this: God has made one as well as the other, so that no one can discover what the future holds.

    15Exceptions to the Law of Retribution During the days of my fleeting life I have seen both of these things: Sometimes a righteous person dies prematurely in spite of his righteousness, and sometimes a wicked person lives long in spite of his evil deeds.

  • Ps 36:4
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    4He plans ways to sin while he lies in bed; he is committed to a sinful lifestyle; he does not reject what is evil.

  • Eccl 12:14
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    14For God will evaluate every deed, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips has accomplished evil.

  • Prov 24:8
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    8The one who plans to do evil will be called a scheming person.

  • Ps 34:16
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    16But the LORD opposes evildoers and wipes out all memory of them from the earth.

  • Prov 16:33
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    33The dice are thrown into the lap, but their every decision is from the LORD.

  • Job 20:29
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    29Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God.”

  • Dan 9:14
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    14The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him.

  • Eccl 9:1-3
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    1Everyone Will Die So I reflected on all this, attempting to clear it all up. I concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their works, are in the hand of God; whether a person will be loved or hated– no one knows what lies ahead.

    2Everyone shares the same fate– the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the ceremonially clean and unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. What happens to the good person, also happens to the sinner; what happens to those who make vows, also happens to those who are afraid to make vows.

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  • Ps 34:21
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    21Evil people self-destruct; those who hate the godly are punished.

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    8Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

  • Prov 6:15
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    15Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

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    18known from long ago.

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    9A person plans his course, but the LORD directs his steps.

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    12The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he overthrows the wicked to their ruin.

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    17ע(Ayin) The LORD has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his promise that he threatened long ago: He has overthrown you without mercy and has enabled the enemy to gloat over you; he has exalted your adversaries’ power.

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    1The intentions of the heart belong to a man, but the answer of the tongue comes from the LORD.

  • Ps 33:15
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    15He is the one who forms every human heart, and takes note of all their actions.

  • Prov 28:5
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    5Evil people do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it all.

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    6Certainly the LORD guards the way of the godly, but the way of the wicked ends in destruction.

  • Prov 15:3
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    3The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on those who are evil and those who are good.

  • Prov 10:29
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    29The way of the LORD is like a stronghold for the upright, but it is destruction to evildoers.

  • Ps 75:8
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    8For the LORD holds in his hand a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices, and pours it out. Surely all the wicked of the earth will slurp it up and drink it to its very last drop.”

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    69%

    3Is it not misfortune for the unjust, and disaster for those who work iniquity?

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    5The LORD abhors every arrogant person; rest assured that they will not go unpunished.

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    68%

    17But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.

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    14who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;

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    19Bad people have bowed before good people, and wicked people have bowed at the gates of someone righteous.

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    3Yes, the wicked man boasts because he gets what he wants; the one who robs others curses and rejects the LORD.

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    4Pay them back for their evil deeds! Pay them back for what they do! Punish them!

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    16Look, I create the craftsman, who fans the coals into a fire and forges a weapon. I create the destroyer so he might devastate.

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    16for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

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