Proverbs 12:2
Yahweh is pleased with good people, but he condemns those who plan to harm others.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 9:15It is as though the wicked people of many nations have dug a pit for me to fall into [MET], but they have fallen into that same pit. It is as if they spread out a net to catch me [MET], but their feet have been caught in that same net.
Proverbs 1:31So they will endure what will result [MET, DOU] from the evil way they have lived/behaved and the evil things they have planned to do.
Proverbs 8:35Those who find me will have a long life, and Yahweh will be pleased with them.
Ecclesiastes 8:8We cannot control the wind, and we cannot control when we will die. Soldiers are not permitted to go home during a battle, and evil people will not be saved by doing what is evil.
Acts 11:24Barnabas was a good man whom the Holy Spirit completely controlled, one who trusted God completely. Because of what Barnabas did, many people there believed in the Lord Jesus.
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 →