Proverbs Chapter 22 verse 12 Holy Bible
The eyes of Jehovah preserve `him that hath' knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.
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The eyes of the Lord keep knowledge, but by him the acts of the false man will be overturned.
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The eyes of Jehovah preserve knowledge; but he overthroweth the words of the unfaithful.
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The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
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The eyes of Yahweh watch over knowledge; But he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
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The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge. The expression, "preserve knowledge," is found at Proverbs 5:2 (where see note) in the sense of "keep," "retain," and, taken by itself, it might here signify that the Lord alone possesses knowledge, and alone imparts it to his servants (1 Samuel 2:3); but as in the following clause a person, the transgressor, is spoken of, it is natural to expect a similar expression in the former. The Revised Version is correct in rendering the abstract "knowledge" by the concrete "him that hath knowledge;" so that the clause says that God watches over and protects the man who knows him and walks in his ways, and uses his means and abilities for the good of others (see Proverbs 11:9). But he (the Lord) overthroweth the words of the transgressor. The transgressor here is the false, treacherous, perfidious man; and the gnome asserts that God frustrates by turning in another direction the outspoken intentions of this man, which he had planned against the righteous (comp. Proverbs 13:6; Proverbs 21:12). Septuagint, "But the eves of the Lord preserve knowledge, but the transgressor despiseth words," i e. commands, or words of wisdom and warning.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge--i.e., men who know and speak the truth. (See above on Proverbs 21:28.)He overthroweth the words of the transgressor--i.e., the deceitful; He brings his lies to light.
