Proverbs 12:2

Acts 11:24; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Isaiah 32:5-7; Proverbs 1:31; Proverbs 6:18; Proverbs 8:35; Psalms 112:5; Psalms 9:15; Romans 5:7

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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 LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. man. Hebrew. 'ish . App-14, wicked . lawless. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44. will He condemn: or will prono...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn. A good man obtaineth favor - First, it is God who makes him g...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn. A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord - literally, 'd...
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A good man. — The corresponding phrase, “a man of wicked devices,” i.e., who plots against his neighbour, fixes the sense of “good” as signifying...
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

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish. A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked device...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

A good [man] obtaineth favour of the Lord ,.... One that is made so by the grace of God, for no man is so naturally; there is none good, nor does go...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

A good [man] obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn. Ver. 2. A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord. ] Or, "...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 A good man obtaineth favour of the L ORD : but a man of wicked devices will he condemn. Note, 1. We are really as we are with Go...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Obtaineth favour; whereby he is and shall be acquitted and justified. A man of wicked devices, who designeth and industriously committeth wickedn...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

A Comparison Between The Righteous And The Unrighteous, The Basis Of The Righteous Family, And The Destiny Of Each ( Proverbs 12:1-8 ). We have he...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 12:1 . Instruction , “discipline” or “disciplinary instruction.” Proverbs 12:2 . Obtaineth , literally “draws out.”...
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

A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord. The blessing of the righteous and misery of the wicked There is s marked difference between the righte...
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. 2. A good man obtaineth favor of the Lord, is an object of Jehovah' s good pleasure; but a man of wicked devices will He condemn, for He loath...

² A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 12:2

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

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

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

Proverbs 12:2