Proverbs 12
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Chapter 12
| 12:6 | Lie in wait - Are designed to entrap others, and to destroy them.Deliver them - From those that lie in wait for them. |
| 12:7 | Are not - Both they and their families suddenly perish. |
| 12:9 | Despised - That lives in a mean condition. Honoureth - That glories in his high birth or gay attire. |
| 12:10 | Regardeth - He will not destroy it either by labour beyond its strength, or by denying it necessary food or rest. Cruel - There is cruelty mixed even with their most merciful actions. |
| 12:11 | Tilleth - That employs his time in an honest calling.Vain persons - In an idle course of living. |
| 12:12 | Desireth - He approves those arts, which wicked men use like nets to ensnare other men. The root - That piety, which is the root of his actions, yields him sufficient fruit both for his own need, and to do good to others. |
| 12:14 | Mouth - By his pious and profitable discourses. Hands - Of his actions. |
| 12:15 | Hearkeneth - That distrusts his own judgments, and seeks counsel from others. |
| 12:16 | Covereth - The shame, or injury done to him, which he conceals and bears with patience. |
| 12:17 | Deceit - He who uses himself to lying in his common talk, will use falsehood and deceit in judgment. |
| 12:18 | Health - Tends to the comfort and benefit of others. |
| 12:19 | A moment - Liars, though they may make a fair shew for a season, yet are quickly convicted. |
| 12:20 | Deceit - They whose hearts devise mischief shall be deceived in their hopes, and bring trouble upon themselves: but they who by good counsels labour to promote peace, shall reap the comfort of it themselves. |
| 12:23 | Concealeth - He does not unseasonably utter what he knows.Foolishness - Betrays his ignorance and folly. |
| 12:25 | A good word - A compassionate or encouraging word. |
| 12:26 | Neighbour - Than any other men. Seduceth - Heb. maketh them to err, to lose that excellency or happiness which they had promised themselves. |
| 12:27 | Resteth not - Does not enjoy the fruit of his labours.Precious - Yields him comfort and blessing with it. |