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Proverbs 10:25
When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The wisdom author addresses an audience within a collection of antithetical instructions, contrasting the sudden destruction of the wicked with the enduring stability of the righteous.
The words — ס֭וּפָה (Su.fah) means a storm-wind or whirlwind, and יְס֣וֹד (ye.Sod) denotes a foundation or base of support.
The thread — The text's contrast between sweeping judgment and unshakable security runs in Psalms 58:9, where God sweeps away the wicked, and Proverbs 12:3, which declares the righteous cannot be uprooted.
Why it lands — It requires a reader to pursue righteous conduct, recognizing that only a life grounded in divine order withstands sudden destruction.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Cross-references
- Psalms 15:5 who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
- Psalms 58:9 Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.
- Proverbs 12:3 A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.
- Matthew 7:24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- Job 21:18 Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- Proverbs 1:27 when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
- Proverbs 12:7 The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the house of the righteous will stand.
- Isaiah 40:24 No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
- Matthew 16:18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
- Ephesians 2:20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.