Proverbs 12:26
The righteous is a guide to his neighbor; But the way of the wicked causeth them to err.
American Standard Version
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 a man maketh it stoop; But a good word maketh it glad.
Cross References
Psalms 18:12At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
Proverbs 14:22Do they not err that devise evil? But mercy and truth [shall be to] them that devise good.
Matthew 5:46For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
James 1:13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man:
2 Peter 2:18For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;
Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down 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 →