Proverbs Chapter 15 verse 25 Holy Bible
Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.
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The house of the man of pride will be uprooted by the Lord, but he will make safe the heritage of the widow.
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Jehovah plucketh up the house of the proud; but he establisheth the boundary of the widow.
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The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
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Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, But he will keep the widow's borders intact.
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The house of the proud Jehovah pulleth down, And He setteth up the border of the widow.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 25. - The Lord will destroy the house of the proud (ch. 12:7; 14:11; 16:18). The proud, self-confident man, with his family and household and wealth, shall be rooted up. The heathen saw how retribution overtook the arrogant. Thus Euripides says ('Heracl.,' 387) - Τῶν φρονημάτωνὉ Ζεὺς κολαστὴς τῶν ἄγαν ὑπερφρόνων "Zeus, the chastiser of too haughty thoughts." But he will establish the border of the widow. He will take the widow under his protection, and see that her landmark is not removed, and that her little portion is secured to her. The widow is taken as the type of weakness and desolation, as often in Scripture (comp. Deuteronomy 10:18; Psalm 146:9). In a country where property was defined by landmarks - stones or some such objects - nothing was easier than to remove these altogether, or to alter their position. That this was a common form of fraud and oppression we gather from the stringency of the enactments against the offence (see Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17; and comp. Job 24:2; Proverbs 22:28). In the Babylonian and Assyrian inscriptions which have been preserved, there are many invoking curses, curious and multifarious, against the disturbers of boundaries. Such marks were considered sacred and inviolable by the Greeks and Romans (see Plato, 'De Leg.,' 8:842, 843; Ovid, 'Fast.,' 2:639, etc.).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(25) The proud--who trust in their own strength; while He will "establish the border," or landmark, of the helpless widow, who has none to cry to but Him. The frequently threatened punishment against one who removes his neighbour's landmark, shews the offence to have been a common form of oppression. (Comp. Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17; Proverbs 22:28; Job 24:2; Hosea 5:10.)
