Bible Commentaries

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Proverbs 12

Verse 6

Lie in wait - Are designed to entrap others, and to destroy them. Deliver them - From those that lie in wait for them.


Verse 7

Are not - Both they and their families suddenly perish.


Verse 9

Despised - That lives in a mean condition. Honoureth - That glories in his high birth or gay attire.


Verse 10

Regardeth - He will not destroy it either by labour beyond its strength, or by denying it necessary food or rest. Cruel - There is cruelty mixed even with their most merciful actions.


Verse 11

Tilleth - That employs his time in an honest calling. Vain persons - In an idle course of living.


Verse 12

Desireth - He approves those arts, which wicked men use like nets to ensnare other men. The root - That piety, which is the root of his actions, yields him sufficient fruit both for his own need, and to do good to others.


Verse 14

Mouth - By his pious and profitable discourses. Hands - Of his actions.


Verse 15

Hearkeneth - That distrusts his own judgments, and seeks counsel from others.


Verse 16

Covereth - The shame, or injury done to him, which he conceals and bears with patience.


Verse 17

Deceit - He who uses himself to lying in his common talk, will use falsehood and deceit in judgment.


Verse 18

Health - Tends to the comfort and benefit of others.


Verse 19

A moment - Liars, though they may make a fair shew for a season, yet are quickly convicted.


Verse 20

Deceit - They whose hearts devise mischief shall be deceived in their hopes, and bring trouble upon themselves: but they who by good counsels labour to promote peace, shall reap the comfort of it themselves.


Verse 23

Concealeth - He does not unseasonably utter what he knows. Foolishness - Betrays his ignorance and folly.


Verse 25

A good word - A compassionate or encouraging word.


Verse 26

Neighbour - Than any other men. Seduceth - Heb. maketh them to err, to lose that excellency or happiness which they had promised themselves.


Verse 27

Resteth not - Does not enjoy the fruit of his labours. Precious - Yields him comfort and blessing with it.

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