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Proverbs 2

Prov. 2:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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To deliver
natsal (Hebrew #5337)
to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
KJV usage: X at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, X without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, X surely, take (out).
Pronounce: naw-tsal'
Origin: a primitive root
thee from the way
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
of the 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
man, from the man
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
that speaketh
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
froward things
tahpukah (Hebrew #8419)
a perversity or fraud
KJV usage: (very) froward(-ness, thing), perverse thing.
Pronounce: tah-poo-kaw'
Origin: from 2015
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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deliver.
Prov. 1:10‑19• 10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent not.
 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood,{HR}Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
 12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol,{HR}And whole as those that go down into the pit.
 13We shall find all precious substance,{HR}We shall fill our houses with spoil:
 14Cast in thy lot among us;{HR}We will have all one purse.
 15My son, walk not in the way with them,{HR}Keep back thy foot from their path.
 16For their feet run to evil,{HR}And they make haste to shed blood.
 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. 1:10‑19)
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Prov. 4:14‑17• 14Enter not into the path of the wicked,{HR}And go not into the way of evil [men];
 15Avoid it, pass not by it,{HR}Turn from it, and pass away.
 16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief;{HR}And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.
 17For they eat the bread of wickedness{HR}And drink the wine of violence. (Prov. 4:14‑17)
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Prov. 9:6• 6Forsake follies and live,{HR}And go in the way of understanding. (Prov. 9:6)
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Prov. 13:20• 20He that walketh with wise [men] becometh wise;{HR}But a companion of the foolish will be destroyed. (Prov. 13:20)
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Psa. 17:4‑5• 4As to the works of man,{HR}By the words of thy lips I have watched the paths of the violent,
 5To hold fast my feet in thy paths;{HR}My footsteps were not moved. (Psa. 17:4‑5)
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Psa. 26:4‑5• 4I have not sat with vain men,{HR}And with dissemblers I go not in.
 5I have hated the congregation of evil doers,{HR}And with the wicked I sit not. (Psa. 26:4‑5)
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Psa. 141:4• 4Incline not my heart to an evil matter (word),{HR}To practice practices in wickedness with men doing iniquity;{HR}And let me not eat of their dainties. (Psa. 141:4)
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2 Cor. 6:17• 17Wherefore come out from the midst of them and be separated, saith [the] Lord, and touch no unclean thing; and I will receive you (2 Cor. 6:17)
from the man.
Prov. 3:32• 32For the perverse [is] an abomination to Jehovah;{HR}But his secret [is] with the upright. (Prov. 3:32)
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Prov. 8:13• 13The fear of Jehovah [is] to hate evil:{HR}Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way,{HR}And the froward mouth do I hate. (Prov. 8:13)
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Prov. 16:28‑30• 28A froward man soweth contention:{HR}And a talebearer separateth chief friends.
 29A violent man enticeth his neighbour,{HR}And leadeth him a way [that is] not good.
 30He that shutteth his eyes, [it is] to devise froward things;{HR}He that biteth his lips bringeth evil to pass. (Prov. 16:28‑30)
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Psa. 101:4• 4A perverse heart shall depart from me:{HR}Evil I will not know. (Psa. 101:4)
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Isa. 59:3‑5• 3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips are speaking lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.
 4None sueth in righteousness, none pleadeth in truthfulness. They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
 5They hatch serpents' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. (Isa. 59:3‑5)
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Acts 20:30• 30and from among your own selves shall men arise speaking things perverted to draw the disciples after them. (Acts 20:30)
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1 Cor. 15:33• 33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. (1 Cor. 15:33)
• The evil man is the man who walks in the pride of his heart and in independence of God. This, to the young, seems very attractive, appealing to the natural mind. (“Proverbs Two” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the man that speaketh froward thingsa;

JND Translation Notes

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Or "deceits," plural, as often. see Ps. 5.9; 11.7.

W. Kelly Translation

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To deliver thee from the way of evil,{HR}From the man that speaketh froward things;