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Selected Verse: Proverbs 27:12 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 27:12 |
Strong Concordance |
A prudent [06175] man foreseeth [07200] the evil [07451], and hideth [05641] himself; but the simple [06612] pass on [05674], and are punished [06064]. |
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King James |
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| (Compare Pro 20:16; Pro 22:3). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Compare the marginal reference. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
ערום appears to lean on חכם.
The prudent man seeth the misfortune, hideth himself;
The simple pass on, suffer injury.
= Pro 22:3, where וּפתיים for פּתאים, ונסתּר for נסתּר, and ונענשׁוּ for נענשׁוּ; the three asyndeta make the proverb clumsy, as if it counted out its seven words separately to the hearer. Ewald, 349a, calls it a "Steinschrift" an inscription on a stone. The perfects united in pairs with, and yet more without, Vav, express the coincidence
(Note: The second Munach is at Pro 22:3, as well as here, according to the rule Pro 18:4 of the Accentuationssystem, the transformation of the Dechi, and preserves its value of interpunction; the Legarmeh of ערום is, however, a disjunctive of less force than Dechi, so that thus the sequence of the accents denotes that ערום ראה רעה is a clause related to ונסתר as a hypothetical antecedent: if the prudent sees the calamity, then he hides himself from it. This syntactic relation is tenable at Pro 22:3, but not here at Pro 27:12. Here, at least, ערום would be better with Rebia, to which the following Dechi would subordinate itself. The prudent seeth the evil, concealeth himself; or also, prudent is he who sees the evil, hides himself. For of two disjunctives before Athnach, the first, according as it is greater or less than the second, retains either Legarmeh (e.g., Psa 1:5; Psa 86:12; Psa 88:14; Psa 109:14) or Rebia (Pro 12:2, Psa 25:2; Psa 69:9; Psa 146:5).)
as to time. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| A prudent man foreseeth the evil - The very same as Pro 22:3. |
3 A prudent [06175] man foreseeth [07200] the evil [07451], and hideth [05641] [05641] himself: but the simple [06612] pass on [05674], and are punished [06064].
16 Take [03947] his garment [0899] that is surety [06148] for a stranger [02114]: and take a pledge [02254] of him for a strange woman [05237].
5 Happy [0835] is he that hath the God [0410] of Jacob [03290] for his help [05828], whose hope [07664] is in the LORD [03068] his God [0430]:
9 For the zeal [07068] of thine house [01004] hath eaten me up [0398]; and the reproaches [02781] of them that reproached [02778] thee are fallen [05307] upon me.
2 O my God [0430], I trust [0982] in thee: let me not be ashamed [0954], let not mine enemies [0341] triumph [05970] over me.
2 A good [02896] man obtaineth [06329] favour [07522] of the LORD [03068]: but a man [0376] of wicked devices [04209] will he condemn [07561].
14 Let the iniquity [05771] of his fathers [01] be remembered [02142] with the LORD [03068]; and let not the sin [02403] of his mother [0517] be blotted out [04229].
14 LORD [03068], why castest thou off [02186] my soul [05315]? why hidest [05641] thou thy face [06440] from me?
12 I will praise [03034] thee, O Lord [0136] my God [0430], with all my heart [03824]: and I will glorify [03513] thy name [08034] for evermore [05769].
5 Therefore the ungodly [07563] shall not stand [06965] in the judgment [04941], nor sinners [02400] in the congregation [05712] of the righteous [06662].
12 A prudent [06175] man foreseeth [07200] the evil [07451], and hideth [05641] himself; but the simple [06612] pass on [05674], and are punished [06064].
3 A prudent [06175] man foreseeth [07200] the evil [07451], and hideth [05641] [05641] himself: but the simple [06612] pass on [05674], and are punished [06064].
4 The words [01697] of a man's [0376] mouth [06310] are as deep [06013] waters [04325], and the wellspring [04726] of wisdom [02451] as a flowing [05042] brook [05158].
3 A prudent [06175] man foreseeth [07200] the evil [07451], and hideth [05641] [05641] himself: but the simple [06612] pass on [05674], and are punished [06064].
3 A prudent [06175] man foreseeth [07200] the evil [07451], and hideth [05641] [05641] himself: but the simple [06612] pass on [05674], and are punished [06064].
3 A prudent [06175] man foreseeth [07200] the evil [07451], and hideth [05641] [05641] himself: but the simple [06612] pass on [05674], and are punished [06064].