Proverbs 12:8
In accordance with his intelligence is a man praised; but he that is perverse of heart will come to be despised.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
7The wicked are suddenly overthrown, and are no more; but the house of the righteous will endure.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:30Therefore saith the Lord the God of Israel, I had indeed said, Thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever; but now, saith the Lord, Be it far from me; for those that honor me will I honor, and those that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
1 Samuel 16:18Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lechemite, who is skilful as a player, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and intelligent in speech, and a person of a good form, and the Lord is with him.
1 Samuel 25:17And now know and consider what thou canst do; for evil is determined on against our master, and against all his household; and he is too greatly a worthless man for me to speak to him.
Proverbs 1:26[Therefore] I also will truly laugh at your calamity; I will deride [you] when your terror cometh;
Proverbs 5:23He will indeed die for want of correction; and through the abundance of his folly will he sink into error.
Daniel 12:2And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to disgrace and everlasting abhorrence.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:8
7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. We are here taught as before ( v. 3 and ch. x. 25, 30 ), 1. That the triumphing of the wicked is short. They may be exalted for a while, but in a little time they are overthrown and are not; their trouble proves their overthrow, and those who made a great show disappear, and their place knows them no more. Turn the wicked, and they are not; they stand in such a slippery place that the least touch of trouble brings them down, like… Read the whole commentary →