Proverbs 14:12

seemeth right. is pleasing. It only "seems" right, Illustrations: Jeroboam (1 Kings 12:27-33; 1 Kings 14:7-11. Compare Proverbs 3:7); Josiah (2 Chronicles 35:20-24); Jews (Acts 13:50; John 16:2. Compare Paul, Philippians 1:3; Philippians 1:4-7, and 1 Timothy 1:13).

are. is.

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¹² There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

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Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

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The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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