Proverbs 22:12
The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
In Context
11Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace [are] his lips, a king [is] his friend.
13The slothful hath said, 'A lion [is] without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'
Cross References
2 Kings 6:9And the man of God sendeth unto the king of Israel, saying, 'Take heed of passing by this place, for thither are the Aramaeans coming down;
Nehemiah 4:9And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.
Isaiah 59:19And they fear from the west the name of Jehovah, And from the rising of the sun — His honour, When come in as a flood doth an adversary, The Spirit of Jehovah hath raised an ensign against him.
Acts 5:39and if it be of God, ye are not able to overthrow it, lest perhaps also ye be found fighting against God.'
Acts 12:23and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.
2 Thessalonians 2:8and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his presence,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:12
11 He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend. Here is, 1. The qualification of an accomplished, a complete gentleman, that is fit to be employed in public business. He must be an honest man, a man that loves pureness of heart and hates all impurity, not only pure from all fleshly lusts, but from all deceit and dissimulation, from all selfishness and sinister designs, that takes care to approve himself a man of sincerity, is just and fair from principle, and delights… Read the whole commentary →