Proverbs 12:12

The wicked desireth, &c.— The wicked earnestly desireth the hunting of evil. Schultens. Houbigant reads it very differently, A tempest shall shake the device of the wicked: the root of the just shall be firm.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The meaning seems to be: The “net of evil men” (compare Proverbs 1:17 ) is that in which they are taken, the judgment of God in which they are ens...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

The wicked desireth the (e) net of evil [men]: but the (f) root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit]. (e) Continually imagines ways to harm others. (f...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 12. Here we have a number of proverbs handling the favourite subject of retribution ( Proverbs 12:2 f., Proverbs 12:7 ; Proverbs 12:14...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

The wicked . a lawless one. the net. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for what is caught in it. of evil men: i.e. which e...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The wicked desireth the net of evil men : but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit . The wicked desireth the net of evil men - They applaud the...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit. The wicked desireth the net of evil (men): but the root...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

4. A crown, etc.] Possibly there may be a reference to the crown worn on their wedding-day by bride and bridegroom ( Song of Solomon 3:11 ; Song o...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Read, 'Wickedness is the net of evil men.' Their ovm badness entraps them.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The wicked desireth the net of evil men — i.e., to enrich himself by prey as they do; but the “root of the righteous yieldeth fruit,” by their ow...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 13 THE TONGUE "A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his MOUTH: and the doings of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him."...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 12:9 . That is to say, it matters little that one is not counted as of any importance by his neighbors if, nevertheless, he is able t...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bre...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The wicked desireth the net of evil [men] ,.... To be master of all the wicked arts and methods evil men use to ensnare and oppress others; to get t...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

The wicked desireth the net of evil [men]: but the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit]. Ver. 12. The wicked desireth the net of evil men, ] i....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The wicked desireth the net of evil men He approves and uses those cunning and deceitful arts which evil men employ, like nets, to insnare others,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

12 The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit. See here, 1. What is the care and aim...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The wicked desireth the net of evil men; he approveth and useth those cunning and deceitful arts, which wicked men use like nets to insnare other m...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Righteous Are Compassionate And Hard Working And Will Prosper, While The Unrighteous Are Lacking In Compassion And Slothful And Will Suffer Lack...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 12:12 . Net . Delitzsch, Zockler, and Miller translate this word “spoil” or “prey.” The Hebrew word means also a “fortre...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit. The crafty and the honest I. Craftiness. 1. Craft is...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 12:1 Instruction ; correction, discipline, which shows a man his faults, gives him a lowly opinion of himself, and ope...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 12. The wicked desireth the net of evil men, rather, the spoil, that which is taken in the net; that is, one wicked person tries to deprive the...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Habakkuk 1:15-17 ; Isaiah 27:6 ; Isaiah 37:31 ; Jeremiah 17:7 ; Jeremiah 17:8 ; Jeremiah 5:26-28 ; John 15:16 ; John 15:5 ; Luke 8:13-15 ;...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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, yi...

¹² The wicked desireth the neta of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 12:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

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

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Proverbs 12:12