Loving Discipline and Knowledge
Proverbs 12:2
In 11 translations
- BSB
- The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.
- KJV
- A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
- WEB
- A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.
- ASV
- A good man shall obtain favor of Jehovah; But a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
- LSV
- The good brings forth favor from YHWH, || And the man of wicked schemes He condemns.
- YLT
- The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.
- DBY
- A good [man] obtaineth favour of Jehovah; but a man of mischievous devices will he condemn.
- DRC
- He that is good, shall draw grace from the Lord: but he that trusteth in his own devices doth wickedly.
- GNV
- A good man getteth fauour of the Lord: but the man of wicked immaginations will hee condemne.
- JPS
- A good man shall obtain favour of the LORD; but a man of wicked devices will He condemn.
- LXXE
- He that has found favour with the Lord is made better; but a transgressor shall be passed over in silence.Or. better is he, etc.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- ט֗וֹב יָפִ֣יק רָ֭צוֹן מֵיְהוָ֑ה וְאִ֖ישׁ מְזִמּ֣וֹת יַרְשִֽׁיעַ׃
- LXX-Br
- Κρείσσων ὁ εὑρὼν χάριν παρὰ Κυρίῳ, ἀνὴρ δὲ παράνομος παρασιωπηθήσεται.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Proverbs 8:35For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
- Acts 11:24Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.
- Psalms 112:5It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.
- Romans 5:7Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
- Proverbs 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
- Isaiah 32:5–7No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected. For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and…
- Psalms 9:15The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
- Proverbs 6:18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,
- Ecclesiastes 8:8As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
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