Proverbs 12:2
The good obtaineth favor of the Lord; but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
Leeser Tanakh
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 correction loveth knowledge; but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
3A man cannot be firmly established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous will not be moved.
Cross References
Psalms 9:15(9:16) Sunk are nations in the ditch that they have prepared: in this net which they had laid in secret is their own foot caught.
Proverbs 1:31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and from their own counsels shall they be satisfied.
Proverbs 8:35For he who findeth me findeth life, and he obtaineth favor from the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 8:8No man hath control over the spirit to detain the spirit; and there is no control over the day of death; and there is no representation in that war; and wickedness will not deliver those that practise 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 →