Proverbs 12:13
Evil people are trapped by the evil things that they say [MTY], but righteous people escape from trouble.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 4:9But David replied to them, “Yahweh is the one who has rescued me from all my troubles. And just as surely as Yahweh lives, what I am now saying is also true.
Psalms 5:6You get rid of liars, and you despise those who murder others and those who deceive others.
Psalms 34:20Yahweh protects them from being harmed; when their enemies attack them, they will not break any bones of those righteous people.
Psalms 64:8Because of what they say [MTY], he will get rid of them, and then everyone who sees what has happened to them will shake their heads to ridicule them.
Proverbs 10:8Wise people heed good instruction/advice, but people who talk foolishly will ruin themselves.
Proverbs 15:2When wise people speak [MTY], it causes those who hear what they say to want to know more; foolish people continually say [MTY] what is foolish.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:13
12 The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit. See here, 1. What is the care and aim of a wicked man; he would do mischief: He desires the net of evil men. "Oh that I were but as cunning as such a man, to make a hand of those I deal with, that I had but his art of over-reaching, that I could but take my revenge on one I have spite to as effectually as he can!" He desires the strong-hold, or fortress, of evil men (so some read it), to act securely in doing mischief, that… Read the whole commentary →