Proverbs 12:2
+ 12:2 Or. better is he, etc. He that has found favor with the Lord is made better; but a transgressor shall be passed over in silence.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
In Context
1He that loves instruction loves sense, but he that hates reproofs is a fool.
3A man shall not prosper by wickedness; but the roots of the righteous shall not be taken up.
Cross References
Psalms 9:15The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken. 1
Proverbs 1:31Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness.
Proverbs 8:35For my outgoings are the outgoings of life, and in them is prepared favor from the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; and there is no power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in the day of the battle; neither shall ungodliness save her votary.
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 →