Proverbs 22:12
The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
In Context
11He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.
13The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”
Cross References
2 Kings 6:9Then the man of God sent word to the king of Israel: “Be careful passing by this place, for the Arameans are going down there.”
Nehemiah 4:9So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.
Isaiah 59:19So shall they fear the name of the LORD where the sun sets, and His glory where it rises. For He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the LORD.
Acts 5:39But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God.”
Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
2 Thessalonians 2:8And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:12
11 He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend. Here is, 1. The qualification of an accomplished, a complete gentleman, that is fit to be employed in public business. He must be an honest man, a man that loves pureness of heart and hates all impurity, not only pure from all fleshly lusts, but from all deceit and dissimulation, from all selfishness and sinister designs, that takes care to approve himself a man of sincerity, is just and fair from principle, and delights… Read the whole commentary →