Proverbs 6:12

A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

In Context

11Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.

13And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his fingers.

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Cross References

Psalms 10:3For behold the sinners have bent their bow, they have prepared their arrows for the quiver, to shoot + 10:3 Gr. in dark moon, or little moonlight, q. d. luce malignâ privily at the upright in heart. 1

Psalms 36:3Hope in the Lord, and do good; and dwell on the land, and you shall be fed with the wealth of it. 1

Psalms 59:7Galaad is mine, and Manasse is mine; and Ephraim is the + 59:7 Or, strengthening. strength of my head; 1

Psalms 101:3For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick. 1

Proverbs 3:32For every transgressor is unclean before the Lord; neither does he sit among the righteous.

Proverbs 6:14His perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:7-12

Slothfulness Reproved. 6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. Solomon, in these verses, addresses himself to the sluggard who loves… Read the whole commentary →

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