Proverbs 12
Reading Proverbs chapter 12 in the Webster's Bible, public-domain text from 1833.
Verses 1–10
1 Whoever loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof [is] brutish.
2 A good [man] obtaineth favor from the LORD: but a man of wicked devices he will condemn.
3 A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
4 A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones.
5 The thoughts of the righteous [are] right: [but] the counsels of the wicked [are] deceit.
6 The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
7 The wicked are overthrown, and [are] not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
9 [He that is] despised, and hath a servant, [is] better than he that honoreth himself, and is destitute of bread.
10 A righteous [man] regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked [are] cruel.
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