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Proverbs 12

Prov. 12:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The wicked
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
desireth
chamad (Hebrew #2530)
to delight in
KJV usage: beauty, greatly beloved, covet, delectable thing, (X great) delight, desire, goodly, lust, (be) pleasant (thing), precious (thing).
Pronounce: khaw-mad'
Origin: a primitive root
the δnet
matsowd (Hebrew #4685)
or mtsodah {mets-o-daw'}; from 6679; a net (for capturing animals or fishes)
KJV usage: also (by interchange for 4679) a fastness or (beseiging) tower:--bulwark, hold, munition, net, snare.
Pronounce: maw-tsode'
Origin: or (feminine) mtsowdah {mets-o-daw'}
c of evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
men: but the root
sheresh (Hebrew #8328)
a root (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bottom, deep, heel, root.
Pronounce: sheh'-resh
Origin: from 8327
of the righteous
tsaddiyq (Hebrew #6662)
just
KJV usage: just, lawful, righteous (man).
Pronounce: tsad-deek'
Origin: from 6663
yieldeth
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
fruit.
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Hab. 1:15‑16• 15They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad:
 16therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. (Hab. 1:15‑16)
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or, fortress.

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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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desireth.
Prov. 1:17‑19• 17For in vain is the net spread in the eyes of a bird;
 18And they lay wait for their own blood;{HR}They lurk privily for their own lives.
 19So (are) the paths of every one that is greedy of gain:{HR}It taketh away the life of its owners. (Prov. 1:17‑19)
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Prov. 29:5‑6• 5A man that flattereth his neighbour{HR}Spreadeth a net for his steps.
 6In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare;{HR}But the righteous shall sing and rejoice. (Prov. 29:5‑6)
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Psa. 9:15• 15The Gentiles have sunk into the pit [which] they made;{HR}In the very net [which] they hid is their foot taken. (Psa. 9:15)
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Psa. 10:9• 9He lieth in wait in the secret place like a lion in his covert;{HR}He lieth in wait to catch the afflicted;{HR}He catcheth the afflicted when he draweth him into his net. (Psa. 10:9)
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Jer. 5:26‑28• 26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.
 27As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and have enriched themselves.
 28They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not adjudge. (Jer. 5:26‑28)
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Mic. 7:2• 2The good man is perished out of the land, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net. (Mic. 7:2)
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Hab. 1:15‑17• 15They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad:
 16therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
 17Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations. (Hab. 1:15‑17)
net.
or, fortress.
Prov. 10:15• 15The rich one's wealth [is] his strong city;{HR}The poor's destruction [is] their poverty. (Prov. 10:15)
the root.
Psa. 1:3• 3And he is as a tree planted by the waterbrooks,{HR}Which yieldeth its fruit in its season,{HR}And its leaf fadeth not;{HR}And all that he doeth prospereth. (Psa. 1:3)
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Isa. 27:6• 6In future Jacob shall take root; Israel shall bud and blossom, and fill the face of the world with fruit. (Isa. 27:6)
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Isa. 37:31• 31And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. (Isa. 37:31)
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Jer. 17:7‑8• 7Blessed is the man that trusteth in Jehovah, and whose hope Jehovah is.
 8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. (Jer. 17:7‑8)
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Luke 8:13‑15• 13But those upon the rock, those who when they hear, receive the Word with joy, but having no root they believe only for a while, and in time of temptation fall away.
 14But that that fell where the thorns were, these are they who having heard, go away, and are choked under the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
 15But that in the good ground, these are they who in an honest and good heart, having heard the Word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. (Luke 8:13‑15)
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John 15:5,16• 5I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, he beareth much fruit; because apart from me ye can do nothing.
 16Not ye chose me, but I chose you and appointed you that ye should go and bear fruit, and your fruit abide; that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you. (John 15:5,16)
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Rom. 6:22• 22But now freed from sin, and made bondservants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end life eternal. (Rom. 6:22)
• The wicked would surround his very soul with evil, while hoping to escape in the day of retribution. (“Proverbs Twelve” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The wicked desireth the netd of evil men; but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "prey," "gain," Eccles. 7.26.

W. Kelly Translation

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The wicked desireth the net of evil [men];{HR}But the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit].