Proverbs 12:2
A good man shall obtain favour of the LORD; but a man of wicked devices will He condemn.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
In Context
1Whoso loveth knowledge loveth correction; but he that is brutish hateth reproof.
3A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall never be moved.
Cross References
Psalms 9:15(9-16) The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Proverbs 1:31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 8:35For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man that hath power over the wind to retain the wind; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:2
Advantages of the Righteous. 1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish. We are here taught to try whether we have grace or no by enquiring how we stand affected to the means of grace. 1. Those that have grace and love it will delight in all the instructions that are given them by way of counsel; admonition, or reproof, by the word or providence of God; they will value a good education, and think it not a hardship, but a happiness, to be under a strict and prudent… Read the whole commentary →