| Proverbs 12:5 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | The thoughts of the righteous are just, But the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | The thoughts of righteous people are fair. The advice of wicked people is treacherous.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. |
| ASV: | The thoughts of the righteous are just; But the counsels of the wicked are deceit. |
| BBE: | The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit. |
| DBY: | The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit. |
| ERV: | The thoughts of the righteous are just: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. |
| JPS: | The thoughts of the righteous are right; but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. |
| WBS: | The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. |
| WEB: | The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful. |
| YLT: | The thoughts of the righteous are justice, The counsels of the wicked -- deceit. |
| Proverbs 12:5 Cross References |
| XREF: | Proverbs 12:4 An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, But she who shames him is like rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 12:6 The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, But the mouth of the upright will deliver them. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| MHC: | 12:1 Those who have grace, will delight in the instructions given them. Those that stifle their convictions, are like brutes. 2. The man who covers selfish and vicious designs under a profession of religion or friendship, will be condemned. 3. Though men may advance themselves by sinful arts, they cannot settle and secure themselves. But those who by faith are rooted in Christ, are firmly fixed. 4. A wife who is pious, prudent, and looks well to the ways of her household, who makes conscience of her duty, and can bear crosses; such a one is an honour and comfort to her husband. She that is the reverse of this, preys upon him, and consumes him. 5. Thoughts are not free; they are under the Divine knowledge, therefore under the Divine command. It is a man's shame to act with deceit, with trick and design. 6. Wicked people speak mischief to their neighbours. A man may sometimes do a good work with one good word. 7. God's blessing is often continued to the families of godly men, while the wicked are overthrown. 8. The apostles showed wisdom by glorying in shame for the name of Christ. 9. He that lives in a humble state, who has no one to wait upon him, but gets bread by his own labour, is happier than he that glories in high birth or gay attire, and wants necessaries. |
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