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Proverbs 22:12

The eyes of the Lord preserue knowledge: and he ouerthroweth the wordes of the transgressours.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- The Topic Concordance - Knowledge;   Preservation;   Seeing;   Transgression;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord’s eyes keep watch over knowledge,but he overthrows the words of the treacherous.
Hebrew Names Version
The eyes of the LORD watch over knowledge; But he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
King James Version
The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
English Standard Version
The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the traitor.
New American Standard Bible
The eyes of the LORD protect knowledge, But He overthrows the words of the treacherous person.
New Century Version
The Lord guards knowledge, but he destroys false words.
Amplified Bible
The eyes of the LORD keep guard over knowledge and the one who has it, But He overthrows the words of the treacherous.
World English Bible
The eyes of Yahweh watch over knowledge; But he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The eyes of the Lorde preserue knowledge: but hee ouerthroweth the wordes of the transgressour.
Legacy Standard Bible
The eyes of Yahweh guard knowledge,But He subverts the words of the treacherous one.
Berean Standard Bible
The LORD's eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord watches over everyone who shows good sense, but he frustrates the plans of deceitful liars.
Complete Jewish Bible
The eyes of Adonai protect [the man with] knowledge, but he overturns the plans of a traitor.
Darby Translation
The eyes of Jehovah preserve knowledge; but he overthroweth the words of the unfaithful.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord watches over true knowledge, and he opposes those who try to deceive others.
George Lamsa Translation
The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge and destroy the words of deceit.
Good News Translation
The Lord sees to it that truth is kept safe by disproving the words of liars.
Lexham English Bible
The eyes of Yahweh keep watch over knowledge, but he will overthrow the words of the faithless.
Literal Translation
The eyes of Jehovah keep knowledge, and He overthrows the words of the treacherous.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The eyes of ye LORDE preserue knowlege, but as for ye wordes of ye despyteful, he bryngeth them to naught.
American Standard Version
The eyes of Jehovah preserve him that hath knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.
Bible in Basic English
The eyes of the Lord keep knowledge, but by him the acts of the false man will be overturned.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The eyes of the LORD preserve him that hath knowledge, but He overthroweth the words of the faithless man.
King James Version (1611)
The eyes of the Lord preserue knowledge, and he ouerthroweth the words of the transgressour.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But the eyes of the Lord preserve discretion; but the transgressor despises wise words.
English Revised Version
The eyes of the LORD preserve him that hath knowledge, but he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The iyen of the Lord kepen kunnyng; and the wordis of a wickid man ben disseyued.
Update Bible Version
The eyes of Yahweh preserve [him that has] knowledge; But he overthrows the words of the treacherous man.
Webster's Bible Translation
The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
New English Translation
The eyes of the Lord guard knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless person.
New King James Version
The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, But He overthrows the words of the faithless.
New Living Translation
The Lord preserves those with knowledge, but he ruins the plans of the treacherous.
New Life Bible
The eyes of the Lord keep watch over much learning, but He destroys the words of the man who is not faithful.
New Revised Standard
The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The eyes of Yahweh, watch over knowledge, therefore hath he overturned the words of the treacherous.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge: and the words of the unjust are overthrown.
Revised Standard Version
The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless.
Young's Literal Translation
The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.
THE MESSAGE
God guards knowledge with a passion, but he'll have nothing to do with deception.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, But He overthrows the words of the treacherous man.

Contextual Overview

12 The eyes of the Lord preserue knowledge: and he ouerthroweth the wordes of the transgressours.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

eyes: 2 Chronicles 16:9, Isaiah 59:19-21, Matthew 16:16-18, Acts 5:39, Acts 12:23, Acts 12:24, Revelation 11:3-11, Revelation 12:14-17

he: Job 5:12, Job 5:13, Acts 8:9-12, Acts 13:8-12, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, 2 Timothy 3:8, 2 Timothy 3:9

words: or, matters

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 5:3 - are not thine

Cross-References

Genesis 20:11
Abraha aunswered: For I thought [thus] surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they shal slaye me for my wyues sake.
Genesis 22:2
And he saide: take thy sonne, thyne onlye sonne Isahac whom thou louest, & get thee vnto the lande Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering vpon one of the mountaines which I wyl shewe thee.
Genesis 22:6
And Abraham toke the wood of the burnt offeryng, and layde it vpon Isahac his sonne: but he him selfe toke fire in his hande and a knyfe, and they went both of them together.
Genesis 22:8
Abraham aunswered: My God wyll prouide a beast for burnt sacrifice: and so they went both together.
Genesis 22:9
And when they came to ye place which God had shewed him, Abraham buylt an aulter there, and dressed the wood, and bound Isahac his sonne, and layde him on the aulter aboue vpo the wood.
Genesis 22:10
And Abraham stretchyng foorth his hande, toke the knyfe to haue killed his sonne.
Genesis 22:12
And he sayde: lay not thy hande vpon the chylde, neyther do any thyng vnto hym, for nowe I knowe that thou fearest God, & hast for my sake not spared [yea] thine onlye sonne.
Genesis 22:13
And Abraham lifting vp his eyes, looked: and beholde, behynde [hym] there was a Ramme caught by the hornes in a thicket: and Abraham went & tooke the Ramme, and offered hym vp for a burnt offering in the steade of his sonne.
Genesis 22:21
Hus his eldest sonne, and Buz his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians,
Genesis 22:22
And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Iidlaph, and Bethuel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge,.... That is, the providence of God, whose eyes run to and fro throughout the whole earth; these preserve the knowledge of himself, even among the Heathens in some measure; for what may be known of God is manifest in them, and showed to them: more particularly his providence has preserved the Scriptures, the means of knowledge, which men would have destroyed; and preserves men of knowledge, as Aben Ezra interprets it, the ministers of the word, the stars he holds in his right hand; and he preserves spiritual and experimental knowledge in the hearts of his people, and causes it to increase; and continues his Gospel and a Gospel ministry in the world, till they all come to the unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God. Or his eyes observe, look unto with delight and pleasure, knowledge and men of knowledge, that know him, and do his will;

and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor; the perfidious, treacherous man; the false teacher, that corrupts the word of God, and handles it deceitfully: the doctrines of such he overthrows, and confutes, and brings to nothing, by his Spirit in his faithful ministers; and causes truth to prevail, and all iniquity to stop its mouth: particularly the words and doctrines of the great transgressor, the lawless and wicked one, the man of sin, antichrist; these have been exposed and overthrown already, and will be more and more so in God's due time.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 22:12. The eyes of the Lord - (the Divine providence) preserve knowledge — This providence has been wonderfully manifested in preserving the sacred oracles, and in preserving many ancient authors, which have been of great use to the civil interests of man.


 
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