What Does Proverbs 12:7 Mean in the King James?
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The wicked are overturned, while the house shaped by alignment holds its place: the verse sets collapse against endurance.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks now: a crooked order can be turned over until it is gone, while a household shaped by alignment remains. What endures is pictured as a house, something shared and inhabited, not merely one person’s survival.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a crooked way can secure a lasting household. The verse pairs endurance with the aligned house while the wicked are overturned and disappear.
THE ROOT
הָפוֹךְ
hāphōkh
GROWS FROM
הפך
h-p-k
to turn, overturn, or transform
The root carries the action of turning or overturning, so the wicked are pictured as having their order reversed and then disappearing. English preserves the collapse in “overthrown,” while the root also lets the turning itself remain audible.
ALSO GROWS
hāphakh: to turn or overturn
הָפַךְ
The same root makes the collapse an act of reversal, not simply a fall.
mahpekah: overthrow or upheaval
מַהְפֵּכָה
This related noun carries the root’s sense of a thorough overturning.
יַעֲמֹד
yaʿămōḏ
GROWS FROM
עמד
ʿ-m-d
to stand, remain, or hold one’s place
“stand” in this verse is yaʿămōḏ. The root can mean standing, remaining, or holding one’s place. The house is pictured as continuing to occupy its place, not merely standing for a moment.
ALSO GROWS
ʿāmaḏ: to stand or remain
עָמַד
This is the root verb behind the house’s continued standing.
ʿōmēḏ: standing; one who stands
עֹמֵד
This related form makes the root’s ongoing state of standing visible.
צַדִּיקִים
tsaddiqim
GROWS FROM
צדק
ts-d-q
to be right or just; alignment
“righteous” in this verse is tsaddiqim. The word carries the sense of rightness and alignment, beyond a label for a person. The verse pairs that alignment with a house that remains.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: rightness or justice
צֶדֶק
It shows the root’s core sense of what is aligned and right.
tsedaqah: righteousness or justice
צְדָקָה
It carries the same root into the expression of rightness in life.
THE PATTERN
What is built on alignment can remain, while the order of the wicked collapses and disappears.
As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.THE THREAD
The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.The Hebrew verb translated “stand” here and “standeth” in the psalm shares the root עמד (ʿ-m-d), meaning to stand or remain. Proverbs applies that endurance to a house shaped by alignment; the psalm applies the same image to the LORD’s counsel across generations.
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