Proverbs 12:6-8

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 12:6

Are to lie in wait for blood; are designed and ordered to entrap or deceive others, and to destroy them. Shall deliver them, to wit, from those that lie in wait for them; which it doth, either, 1. By prayer to God for their deliverance; or, 2. By pacifying the wicked with soft and gentle answers, or by diverting them from their evil course by their good counsels and admonitions; or, 3. By pleading their righteous cause in a judicial or other way. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 12:7

Are not; both they and their families shall suddenly perish. The house; the family or posterity. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 12:8

A man shall be commended, to wit, by wise and good men, according to his wisdom; more or less according to the degree of wisdom which his discourses and actions discover to be in him. He that is of a perverse heart, which he showeth by his wicked words and conversation, shall be despised by God and all wise men. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 12:5-8

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 12:5. Thoughts, or “purposes.” Right, “judgment,” “justice.” Proverbs 12:7. Wordsworth here reads, “When the wicked turn themselves,” etc., i.e., on any reverse of their fortunes, however slight, they perish. MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPHS—Proverbs 12:5-8THOUGHTS AND WORDS AND THEIR RESULTI. The thoughts of the righteous or godly man are right. 1. Because he has the best material out of which to build his thoughts. The kind of building which is reared will depend... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 12:1-28

Chapter 12Whoso loves instruction loves knowledge: but he who hates reproof is brutish ( Proverbs 12:1 ).And there's a lot in the Proverbs about instructing a wise man and he will love you. Instruct a fool and he will hate you. And a fool hateth instruction, and so forth. And the value of loving instruction, receiving instruction.A good man obtains favor of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will be condemned by God. A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 12:1-28

Proverbs 12:4 . A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, as illustrated at large in chap. 31. Proverbs 12:9 . He that is despised, and hath a servant. There are various comments here. He that is despised, as a plebeian, and hath a servant; others say, and hath many servants, is better than the baron lost in poverty and debts. In the east, the rank of a man is known, not so much by the splendour of his carriage, as by the number of footmen which attend him. Absalom had fifty men to... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 12:7

Proverbs 12:7But the house of the righteous shall stand. Virtuous kindredI. In the first place, the circumstance of belonging to the house of the righteous, is a great security that the early principles which so commonly decide the character of the man, have been the subjects of a judicious and anxious attention. The child of such a house cannot have been left to collect from the chance companions of after-life those important truths upon the knowledge of which so much depends.II. It is a... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 12:8

Proverbs 12:8A man shall be commended according to his wisdom. Appreciation better than praiseThere are persons in this world--and the pity is that there are not more of them--who care less for praise than for appreciation. They have an ideal after which they are striving, but of which they consciously fall short, as every one who has a lofty ideal is sure to do. When that ideal is recognised by another, and they are praised or commended for something--let that something be important or not--in... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:6

Pro 12:6 The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. Ver. 6. The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood. ] As they think not, so neither speak they the language of the righteous. "Ye are the light of the world"; Mat 5:14 and because the light stands in the light of their wicked ways, as the angel in Balaam’s way to his sin, therefore they hate the saints; and, as all hatred is bloody, seek their lives, mixing cruelty with... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:7

Pro 12:7 The wicked are overthrown, and [are] not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. Ver. 7. The wicked are overthrown, and are not. ] Say that the righteous cannot prevail by their apologies for themselves and others, God will take the matter into his own hand, and avenge them, Luk 18:7 as he did the primitive Christians and the French Protestants, upon their merciless persecutors. “ Tu, vero, Herodes sanguinolente, time. ” As Beza warned Charles IX, author of the massacre. But... read more

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