{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/pro012.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/pro012.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/pro012.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \n Proverbs 12:6\n \n pro 12:6\nLie in wait - Are designed to entrap others, and to destroy them. Deliver them - From those that lie in wait for them. \n Proverbs 12:7\n \n pro 12:7\nAre not - Both they and their families suddenly perish. \n Proverbs 12:9\n \n pro 12:9\nDespised - That lives in a mean condition. Honoureth - That glories in his high birth or gay attire. \n Proverbs 12:10\n \n pro 12:10\nRegardeth - 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. \n Proverbs 12:11\n \n pro 12:11\nTilleth - That employs his time in an honest calling. Vain persons - In an idle course of living. \n Proverbs 12:12\n \n pro 12:12\nDesireth - 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. \n Proverbs 12:14\n \n pro 12:14\nMouth - By his pious and profitable discourses. Hands - Of his actions. \n Proverbs 12:15\n \n pro 12:15\nHearkeneth - That distrusts his own judgments, and seeks counsel from others. \n Proverbs 12:16\n \n pro 12:16\nCovereth - The shame, or injury done to him, which he conceals and bears with patience. \n Proverbs 12:17\n \n pro 12:17\nDeceit - He who uses himself to lying in his common talk, will use falsehood and deceit in judgment. \n Proverbs 12:18\n \n pro 12:18\nHealth - Tends to the comfort and benefit of others. \n Proverbs 12:19\n \n pro 12:19\nA moment - Liars, though they may make a fair shew for a season, yet are quickly convicted. \n Proverbs 12:20\n \n pro 12:20\nDeceit - 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. \n Proverbs 12:23\n \n pro 12:23\nConcealeth - He does not unseasonably utter what he knows. Foolishness - Betrays his ignorance and folly. \n Proverbs 12:25\n \n pro 12:25\nA good word - A compassionate or encouraging word. \n Proverbs 12:26\n \n pro 12:26\nNeighbour - Than any other men. Seduceth - Heb. maketh them to err, to lose that excellency or happiness which they had promised themselves. \n Proverbs 12:27\n \n pro 12:27\nResteth not - Does not enjoy the fruit of his labours. Precious - Yields him comfort and blessing with it.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs ...","type":"page"}