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Selected Verse: Proverbs 12:3 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 12:3 |
Strong Concordance |
A man [0120] shall not be established [03559] by wickedness [07562]: but the root [08328] of the righteous [06662] shall not be moved [04131]. |
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King James |
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Wickedness cannot give permanent prosperity.
root . . . not be moved--firm as a flourishing tree-- (Psa 1:3; Psa 15:5; Jer 17:8). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
3 A man does not stand by wickedness,
But the root of the righteous remains unmoved.
In רשׁע there lies the idea of want of inward stay (vid., at Psa 1:1); in a manner of thought and of conduct which has no stay in God and His law, there can be expected no external endurance, no solidity. The righteous, on the contrary, have their root in God; nothing can tear them from the ground in which they are rooted, they are as trees which no storm outroots. The very same thought is clothed in other words in Pro 10:25, and another statement regarding the root of the righteous is found at Pro 12:12. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| A man shall not be established by wickedness - Evil is always variable: it has no fixed principle, except the root that is in the human heart; and even that is ever assuming new forms. Nothing is permanent but goodness; and that is unchangeable, because it comes from God. The produce of goodness is permanent, because it has God's blessing in it: the fruit of wickedness, or the property procured by wickedness, is transitory, because it has God's curse in it. The righteous has his root in God; and therefore he shall not be moved. |
8 For he shall be as a tree [06086] planted [08362] by the waters [04325], and that spreadeth out [07971] her roots [08328] by the river [03105], and shall not see [07200] when heat [02527] cometh [0935], but her leaf [05929] shall be green [07488]; and shall not be careful [01672] in the year [08141] of drought [01226], neither shall cease [04185] from yielding [06213] fruit [06529].
5 He that putteth not out [05414] his money [03701] to usury [05392], nor taketh [03947] reward [07810] against the innocent [05355]. He that doeth [06213] these things shall never [05769] be moved [04131].
3 And he shall be like a tree [06086] planted [08362] by the rivers [06388] of water [04325], that bringeth forth [05414] his fruit [06529] in his season [06256]; his leaf [05929] also shall not wither [05034]; and whatsoever he doeth [06213] shall prosper [06743].
12 The wicked [07563] desireth [02530] the net [04685] of evil [07451] men: but the root [08328] of the righteous [06662] yieldeth [05414] fruit.
25 As the whirlwind [05492] passeth [05674], so is the wicked [07563] no more: but the righteous [06662] is an everlasting [05769] foundation [03247].
1 Blessed [0835] is the man [0376] that walketh [01980] not in the counsel [06098] of the ungodly [07563], nor standeth [05975] in the way [01870] of sinners [02400], nor sitteth [03427] in the seat [04186] of the scornful [03887].