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Pro_14:11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
Ver. 11. The house of the wicked shall be overthrown.] As Phoca’s high walls were, because sin was at the bottom: "Brimstone also shall be scattered on his habitation"; {Job_18:15} as it befell Dioclesian, whose house was wholly consumed with fire from heaven; wherewith himself also was so terrified, that he died within a while after. {a}
But the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.] The wicked have "houses," and are called the "inhabitants of the earth." {Rev_12:12} The upright have "tabernacles," or tents that were transportative and taken down at pleasure; here they "have no continuing city," no mansion place; and yet what they have shall flourish: "Our bed is green, the beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir." {Son_1:16-17} See 2Sa_23:5.
{a} Euseb. de vit. Const., lib. v.