Proverbs 12:26
The righteous guideth his neighbour; but the way of the wicked misleadeth them.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
In Context
25Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop; but a good word maketh it glad.
27The slothful roasteth not what he took in hunting; but man's precious substance is to the diligent.
Cross References
Psalms 18:12From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed forth: hail and coals of fire.
Proverbs 14:22Do they not err that devise evil? but loving-kindness and truth are for those that devise good.
Matthew 5:46For if ye should love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not also the tax-gatherers the same?
James 1:13Let no man, being tempted, say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil things, and himself tempts no one.
2 Peter 2:18For [while] speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with [the] lusts of [the] flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,
Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, he who is called Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole habitable world, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:26
25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Here is, 1. The cause and consequence of melancholy. It is heaviness in the heart; it is a load of care, and fear, and sorrow, upon the spirits, depressing them, and disabling them to exert themselves with any vigour on what is to be done or fortitude in what is to borne; it makes them stoop, prostrates and sinks them. Those that are thus oppressed can neither do the duty nor take the comfort of any relation, condition, or… Read the whole commentary →