Bible verse
Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 21:15 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 21.
11 When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; and when a wise man is instructed, he acquires knowledge.
12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.
13 Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.
14 A gift in secret soothes anger, and a covert bribe pacifies great wrath.
15 Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.
16 The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
17 He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.
18 The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.
19 Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
KJV
[It is] joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction [shall be] 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.
ERV
It is joy to the righteous to do judgment; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
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