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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• 5{i}A man that flattereth his neighbour{HR}Spreadeth a net for his steps.{/i}
 6{i}In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare;{HR}But the righteous shall sing and rejoice.{/i} (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• 26{i}For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.{/i}
 27{i}As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and have enriched themselves.{/i}
 28{i}They 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.{/i} (Jer. 5:26‑28)
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Mic. 7:2• 2The good man is perished {i}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.{/i} (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• 13{i}But those upon the rock, those who{/i} 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.
 14{i}But that that fell where the thorns were, these are they who{/i} having heard, go away, and are choked under the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
 15{i}But{/i} 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].