Proverbs 21:7

 The book of Proverbs gives us a lot of instruction on a lot of different subjects. One subject that can keep us in God’s wisdom is Godly Follower-ship. Who we follow; where we follow; how we follow are all spoken about in Proverbs. Here is one of them about wicked men:

Proverbs 21:7

The violence of the wicked will drag them away,

Because they refuse to act with justice.

Before we can read this verse and make sense of it we have to understand how Solomon uses the word "wicked" throughout Proverbs.  The term "wicked," in Solomon's glossary, is used for anyone who disobeys God.  That doesn't have to be a permanent state of disobedience.   It can be an act of "wickedness" and not simply a state.   Solomon is telling us that those who disobey God and use violence (in the Hebrew it simply means creating a "disturbance" or "havoc" that becomes a catalyst for violence) will come back on them and "drag" them away.   When they refuse to act in a just manner - seeking justice at all cost - they are being violent.  That violence will turn on them and bring upon them that very violence (disturbance or havoc).   In time the wicked will fall into their own pit.   By faith we believe this.   We may have to wait.  We sometimes wait to see what God "may" do.  But, God keeps His Word.  We don't have to worry about what God "may" do, but what He "will" do.  He will keep His Word.  Those who stir up strife and havoc will eventually fall to that strife and havoc.  Balaam was a prophet of some sort in the days Israel was entering the wilderness.   King Balak wanted to pay him to bring down violence on Israel.  God told him no!  Yet, he did it anyhow.  That violence he created eventually fell on him.  God’s anger was against him.  Note how God uses it later to teach us:

Nehemiah 13:2 (ESV)

2 for they did not meet the people of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them—yet our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Revelation 2:14 (ESV)

14 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality. 

This is the meaning of Solomon’s proverb.