Proverbs 12:4
A vertuous woman is the crowne of her husband: but she that maketh him ashamed, is as corruption in his bones.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
3A man cannot be established by wickednesse: but the roote of the righteous shall not be mooued.
5The thoughtes of the iust are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceitfull.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:22As a iewell of golde in a swines snoute: so is a faire woman, which lacketh discretion.
Proverbs 14:30A sounde heart is the life of the flesh: but enuie is the rotting of the bones.
Proverbs 19:13A foolish sonne is the calamitie of his father, and the contentions of a wife are like a continuall dropping.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in the wildernesse, then with a contentious and angry woman.
Proverbs 30:23For the hatefull woman, when she is married, and for a handmaid that is heire to her mistres.
Proverbs 31:29Many daughters haue done vertuously: but thou surmountest them all.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:4
3 A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. Note, 1. Though men may advance themselves by sinful arts, they cannot by such arts settle and secure themselves; though they may get large estates they cannot get such as will abide: A man shall not be established by wickedness; it may set him in high places, but they are slippery places, Ps. lxxiii. 18 . That prosperity which is raised by sin is built on the sand, and so it will soon appear. 2. Though good men may… Read the whole commentary →