Proverbs 14:11

“The house of the wicked shall be overthrown, etc.] Houses built to perpetuate their names and eternize their memory; and which, though built high and stately, strong and firm, yet by one accident or another shall come to ruin, when they imagined they would continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations, (<194911>Psalm 49:11); or their families shall become extinct, none to be their heirs and inherit their estates, and transmit their name to posterity; or the substance of their house, their riches and wealth, especially that gotten dishonestly, shall waste away: and in a spiritual sense the house or hope of such, as to eternal salvation, being built on the sand, or something…”

“(Compare Pro 12:7). The contrast of the whole is enhanced by that of house and tabernacle, a permanent and a temporary dwelling.”

“14:11 Although a house is typically more stable than a tent, wickedness destroys and tears down, while godliness builds up (14:1).”

“house: Pro 3:33, Pro 12:7, Pro 21:12; Job 8:15, Job 15:34, Job 18:14, Job 18:15, Job 18:21, Job 20:26-28, Job 21:28; Job 27:13-23; Zac 5:4; Mat 7:26, Mat 7:27 the tabernacle: Pro 11:28, Pro 21:20; Job 8:6; Psa 112:2, Psa 112:3, Psa 128:3; Isa 58:11, Isa 58:12 Proverbs 14:12”

“11 The house of the wicked is overthrown; But the tent of the upright flourishes. In the cogn. proverb, Pro 12:7, line 2 begins with וּבית, but here the apparently firmly-founded house is assigned to the godless, and on the contrary the tent, easily destroyed, and not set up under the delusion of lasting for ever, is assigned to the righteous. While the former is swept away without leaving a trace behind ( Isa 14:23), the latter has blossoms and shoots (הפריח as inwardly transitive, like Job 14:9; Psa 92:14); the household of such remains not only preserved in the same state, but in a prosperous, happy manner it goes forward and upward. Proverbs 14:12”