Proverbs 12:8

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 12:5-8

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 12:5. Thoughts, or “purposes.” Right, “judgment,” “justice.” Proverbs 12:7. Wordsworth here reads, “When the wicked turn themselves,” etc., i.e., on any reverse of their fortunes, however slight, they perish. MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPHS—Proverbs 12:5-8THOUGHTS AND WORDS AND THEIR RESULTI. The thoughts of the righteous or godly man are right. 1. Because he has the best material out of which to build his thoughts. The kind of building which is reared will depend... 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 12:8

Proverbs 12:8A man shall be commended according to his wisdom. Appreciation better than praiseThere are persons in this world--and the pity is that there are not more of them--who care less for praise than for appreciation. They have an ideal after which they are striving, but of which they consciously fall short, as every one who has a lofty ideal is sure to do. When that ideal is recognised by another, and they are praised or commended for something--let that something be important or not--in... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:8

Pro 12:8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised. Ver. 8. A man shall be commended according to his wisdom. ] And all wisdom consists in this, Ut Deum quis cognoscat et colat, saith Lactantius; - That a man rightly know and worship God. This did not Apollonius, whom yet Philostratus commendeth, that he was non doctus, sed natus sapiens, not instructed, but born wise. See the contrary, Job 11:12 . Nor Archimedes, who yet had the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 12:8

commended: Genesis 41:39, 1 Samuel 16:18, 1 Samuel 18:30, Ecclesiastes 8:1, Luke 12:42-Acts :, Luke 16:8, 1 Corinthians 3:10-Ezra :, 1 Corinthians 4:5, 2 Corinthians 10:18 he: Proverbs 1:26, Proverbs 3:35, Proverbs 5:23, 1 Samuel 13:13, 1 Samuel 25:17, Psalms 132:18, Daniel 12:2, Malachi 2:8, Malachi 2:9, Matthew 27:4, Matthew 27:5, Acts 12:23 of a perverse heart: Heb. perverse of heart read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 12:8

8. According to his wisdom Shrewdness or prudence. In proportion to it shall he be applauded. Perverse Crooked of heart. Shall be despised Literally, it shall be for contempt. read more