Proverbs 11:5 Cross References - NSB

⁵ Righteousness of the undefiled [man of integrity] directs his way! Wickedness causes the evil to fall.

²³ Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed. He saddled his donkey and went back to his hometown. He arranged his affairs in order and he hanged himself. He was buried in the family grave.

³ Esther the queen, answered: »If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my petition. My people at my request: ⁴ »For my people and I have been sold for slaughter and destruction. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.« ⁵ Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen: »Who is he and where is he who has had this evil thought in his heart?« ⁶ Esther said: »Our hater and attacker is this evil Haman.« Then Haman was full of fear before the king and the queen. ⁷ The king in his anger got up from the feast and went into the garden. Haman got to his feet to plead to Esther the queen for his life. He saw that the king had already decided against him. ⁸ Then the king came back from the garden into the room where they had been drinking. Haman was stretched out on the seat where Esther was. Then the king said: »Is he taking the queen by force before my eyes in my house?« While the words were on the king's lips, they put a cloth over Haman's face. ⁹ Then Harbonah, one of the court officials waiting before the king, said: »See, the pillar fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who said a good word for the king, is still in its place near Haman's house.« Then the king said: »Put him to death by hanging him on it.« ¹⁰ So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he made for Mordecai. Then the king's rage subsided.

¹⁵ The nations have dug a pit and fallen in. They have been caught in their own trap. ¹⁶ Jehovah has revealed himself by his righteous judgments. The wicked are trapped by their deeds.

³¹ »Now you will get what you deserve for what you have done. Your own advice will make you sick. ³² »Sin and self-satisfaction bring destruction and death to stupid fools.

⁶ In all your ways acknowledge (recognize) Him and He will make your paths straight.

²² His own iniquities will catch the wicked. He will be held with the cords of his sins.

³ The integrity of the upright will guide them. The perverseness of transgressors will destroy them.

⁴ He said: »I have done wrong in giving a righteous man to you.« ⁵ He left the silver in the Temple. Then he went away and hanged himself.