Proverbs 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 2 Samuel 23:5 .

a Euseb. de vit. Const., lib. v.