Proverbs 12:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

Proverbs 12:12 —

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Jeremiah 17:7-8
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. …
John 15:5
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Luke 8:13-15
They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. …
Psalms 1:3
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Proverbs 1:17-19
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. …

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12)

See here, 1. What is the care and aim of a wicked man; he would do mischief: He desires the net of evil men. “Oh that I were but as cunning as such a man, to make a hand of those I deal with, that I had but his art of over-reaching, that I could but take my revenge on one I have spite to as effectually as he can!” He desires the strong-hold, or fortress, of evil men (so some read it), to act secur…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. the wicked ... evil--They love the crafty arts of deception. the root ... fruit--their own resources supply them; or, it may be rendered: “He (God) giveth, or, sets (Eze 17:22) the root of the righteous,” and hence it is firm: or, the verb is impersonal; “As to the root ... it is firm” (Pr 17:19).