Proverbs 12:13

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 12:12-14

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 12:12. Net. Delitzsch, Zockler, and Miller translate this word “spoil” or “prey.” The Hebrew word means also a “fortress.” Maurer, therefore, translates it “defence,” and understands it to mean that the evil combine for mutual protection. This agrees with Zockler’s rendering of the second clause, “the root of the righteous is made sure.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Proverbs 12:12-14I. Concerning wicked men we have—1. A blessed instance of their inability to do all... 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 12:13

Proverbs 12:13The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips.Lies, the snare that liars are caught inThe Supreme has set many snares, in the constitution of things, for the detection and punishment of evil-doers. The liar’s own tongue betrays him. In some of its movements, ere he is aware, it touches the spring which brings down the avenging stroke. It is instructive to read with this view the detailed account of a criminal trial. In the faltering and fall of a false witness you should... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:13

Pro 12:13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of [his] lips: but the just shall come out of trouble. Ver. 13. The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips. ] His heart is oft so full of venom that it cannot be hid, but blisters his tongue, and breaks out at his lips to his own ruin, as it befell Story, Campian, Garnet, and other Popish poisonous spiders, who were swept down by the hand of justice, and drew their last thread in the triangle of Tyburn. Detexit facinus fatuus, et... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 12:13

wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: Heb. snare of the wicked is in the transgression of lips, Proverbs 6:2, Proverbs 15:2, Proverbs 18:6, Proverbs 18:7, 1 Kings 2:23, Psalms 5:6, Psalms 64:8, Daniel 6:24, Matthew 27:25 but: Proverbs 11:8, Genesis 48:16, 2 Samuel 4:9, Psalms 34:19, Ecclesiastes 7:18, Romans 8:35-Haggai :, 2 Peter 2:9 Reciprocal: Genesis 34:13 - deceitfully Judges 12:4 - fugitives Psalms 9:16 - wicked Psalms 59:12 - For the Psalms 140:9 - let the mischief Psalms... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 12:13

13. Wicked… snared Well rendered by Conant: “In the transgression of the lips is an evil snare.” A man is often ensnared by his malicious or envious talk, or by his prevarications and falsehoods. Compare Ecclesiastes 10:12. Trouble Strait or distress. read more