Proverbs 12:8

THE MESSAGE

A person who talks sense is honored; airheads are held in contempt.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A man is praised for his insight,but a twisted mind is despised.

Hebrew Names Version
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, But he who has a warped mind shall be despised.

King James Version
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

English Standard Version
A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of twisted mind is despised.

New American Standard Bible
A person will be praised according to his insight, But one of perverse mind will be despised.

New Century Version
The wisdom of the wise wins praise, but there is no respect for the stupid.

New English Translation
A person is praised in accordance with his wisdom, but the one who has a twisted mind is despised.

Amplified Bible
A man will be commended according to his insight and sound judgment, But the one who is of a perverse mind will be despised.

World English Bible
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, But he who has a warped mind shall be despised.

Geneva Bible (1587)
A man shall be commended for his wisedome: but the froward of heart shalbe despised.

Legacy Standard Bible
A man will be praised according to his insight,But one of perverse heart will be despised.

Berean Standard Bible
A man is praised according to his wisdom, but a twisted mind is despised.

Contemporary English Version
Good sense is worthy of praise, but stupidity is a curse.

Complete Jewish Bible
A person wins praise in keeping with his common sense, but a person with a warped mind is treated with contempt.

Darby Translation
A man is commended according to his wisdom; but he that is of a perverted heart shall be despised.

Easy-to-Read Version
You praise people for their intelligence, but no one respects those who are stupid.

George Lamsa Translation
A man is commended according to his wisdom; but he who lacks understanding shall be despised.

Good News Translation
If you are intelligent, you will be praised; if you are stupid, people will look down on you.

Lexham English Bible
For his mouth of good sense, a man will be recommended, but he who is of perverse mind will be despised.

Literal Translation
A man shall be praised according to his wisdom, but he who is of a crooked heart shall be despised.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A man shalbe commended for his wy?dome, but a foole shal be despysed.

American Standard Version
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom; But he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

Bible in Basic English
A man will be praised in the measure of his wisdom, but a wrong-minded man will be looked down on.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
A man shall be commended according to his intelligence; but he that is of a distorted understanding shall be despised.

King James Version (1611)
A man shall be commended according to his wisedome: but hee that is of a peruerse heart, shall be despised.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
A man shalbe commended for his wisdome: but a foole shalbe dispised.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The mouth of an understanding man is praised by a man; but he that is dull of heart is had in derision.

English Revised Version
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A man schal be knowun bi his teching; but he that is veyn and hertles, schal be open to dispising.

Update Bible Version
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom; But he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

Webster's Bible Translation
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

New King James Version
A man will be commended according to his wisdom, But he who is of a perverse heart will be despised.

New Living Translation
A sensible person wins admiration, but a warped mind is despised.

New Life Bible
A man will be praised for his wisdom, but a man with a sinful mind will be hated.

New Revised Standard
One is commended for good sense, but a perverse mind is despised.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In proportion to his prudence, is a man, to be praised, but, the perverse in heart, shall be an object of contempt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A man shall be known by his learning: but he that is vain and foolish, shall be exposed to contempt.

Revised Standard Version
A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of perverse mind is despised.

Young's Literal Translation
According to his wisdom is a man praised, And the perverted of heart becometh despised.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
A man will be praised according to his insight, But one of perverse mind will be despised.

Contextual Overview

⁸ A person who talks sense is honored; airheads are held in contempt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

commended: Genesis 41:39, 1 Samuel 16:18, 1 Samuel 18:30, Ecclesiastes 8:1, Luke 12:42-44, Luke 16:8, 1 Corinthians 3:10-15, 1 Corinthians 4:5, 2 Corinthians 10:18

he: Proverbs 1:26, Proverbs 3:35, Proverbs 5:23, 1 Samuel 13:13, 1 Samuel 25:17, Psalms 132:18, Daniel 12:2, Malachi 2:8, Malachi 2:9, Matthew 27:4, Matthew 27:5, Acts 12:23

of a perverse heart: Heb. perverse of heart

Cross-References

Genesis 12:14
When Abram arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians took one look and saw that his wife was stunningly beautiful. Pharaoh's princes raved over her to Pharaoh. She was taken to live with Pharaoh.

Genesis 12:16
Because of her, Abram got along very well: he accumulated sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, men and women servants, and camels. But God hit Pharaoh hard because of Abram's wife Sarai; everybody in the palace got seriously sick.

Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and worshiped God there, praying to the Eternal God. Abraham lived in Philistine country for a long time.

Joshua 7:2
Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai (The Ruin), which is near Beth Aven just east of Bethel. He instructed them, "Go up and spy out the land." The men went up and spied out Ai.

Joshua 8:3
Joshua and all his soldiers got ready to march on Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, tough, seasoned fighters, and sent them off at night with these orders: "Look sharp now. Lie in ambush behind the city. Get as close as you can. Stay alert. I and the troops with me will approach the city head-on. When they come out to meet us just as before, we'll turn and run. They'll come after us, leaving the city. As we are off and running, they'll say, ‘They're running away just like the first time.' That's your signal to spring from your ambush and take the city. God , your God, will hand it to you on a platter. Once you have the city, burn it down. God says it, you do it. Go to it. I've given you your orders."

Nehemiah 11:31
The Benjaminites from Geba lived in: Micmash Aijah Bethel and its suburbs Anathoth Nob and Ananiah Hazor Ramah and Gittaim Hadid, Zeboim, and Neballat Lod and Ono and the Valley of the Craftsmen. Also some of the Levitical groups of Judah were assigned to Benjamin.

Isaiah 10:28
You Who Legislate Evil Doom to you who legislate evil, who make laws that make victims— Laws that make misery for the poor, that rob my destitute people of dignity, Exploiting defenseless widows, taking advantage of homeless children. What will you have to say on Judgment Day, when Doomsday arrives out of the blue? Who will you get to help you? What good will your money do you? A sorry sight you'll be then, huddled with the prisoners, or just some corpses stacked in the street. Even after all this, God is still angry, his fist still raised, ready to hit them again. "Doom to Assyria, weapon of my anger. My wrath is a cudgel in his hands! I send him against a godless nation, against the people I'm angry with. I command him to strip them clean, rob them blind, and then push their faces in the mud and leave them. But Assyria has another agenda; he has something else in mind. He's out to destroy utterly, to stamp out as many nations as he can. Assyria says, ‘Aren't my commanders all kings? Can't they do whatever they like? Didn't I destroy Calno as well as Carchemish? Hamath as well as Arpad? Level Samaria as I did Damascus? I've eliminated kingdoms full of gods far more impressive than anything in Jerusalem and Samaria. So what's to keep me from destroying Jerusalem in the same way I destroyed Samaria and all her god-idols?'" When the Master has finished dealing with Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he'll say, "Now it's Assyria's turn. I'll punish the bragging arrogance of the king of Assyria, his high and mighty posturing, the way he goes around saying, "‘I've done all this by myself. I know more than anyone. I've wiped out the boundaries of whole countries. I've walked in and taken anything I wanted. I charged in like a bull and toppled their kings from their thrones. I reached out my hand and took all that they treasured as easily as a boy taking a bird's eggs from a nest. Like a farmer gathering eggs from the henhouse, I gathered the world in my basket, And no one so much as fluttered a wing or squawked or even chirped.'" Does an ax take over from the one who swings it? Does a saw act more important than the sawyer? As if a shovel did its shoveling by using a ditch digger! As if a hammer used the carpenter to pound nails! Therefore the Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, will send a debilitating disease on his robust Assyrian fighters. Under the canopy of God's bright glory a fierce fire will break out. Israel's Light will burst into a conflagration. The Holy will explode into a firestorm, And in one day burn to cinders every last Assyrian thornbush. God will destroy the splendid trees and lush gardens. The Assyrian body and soul will waste away to nothing like a disease-ridden invalid. A child could count what's left of the trees on the fingers of his two hands. And on that Day also, what's left of Israel, the ragtag survivors of Jacob, will no longer be fascinated by abusive, battering Assyria. They'll lean on God , The Holy—yes, truly. The ragtag remnant—what's left of Jacob—will come back to the Strong God. Your people Israel were once like the sand on the seashore, but only a scattered few will return. Destruction is ordered, brimming over with righteousness. For the Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, will finish here what he started all over the globe. Therefore the Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, says: "My dear, dear people who live in Zion, don't be terrorized by the Assyrians when they beat you with clubs and threaten you with rods like the Egyptians once did. In just a short time my anger against you will be spent and I'll turn my destroying anger on them. I, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, will go after them with a cat-o'-nine-tails and finish them off decisively—as Gideon downed Midian at the rock Oreb, as Moses turned the tables on Egypt. On that day, Assyria will be pulled off your back, and the yoke of slavery lifted from your neck." Assyria's on the move: up from Rimmon, on to Aiath, through Migron, with a bivouac at Micmash. They've crossed the pass, set camp at Geba for the night. Ramah trembles with fright. Gibeah of Saul has run off. Cry for help, daughter of Gallim! Listen to her, Laishah! Do something, Anathoth! Madmenah takes to the hills. The people of Gebim flee in panic. The enemy's soon at Nob—nearly there! In sight of the city he shakes his fist At the mount of dear daughter Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. But now watch this: The Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, swings his ax and lops the branches, Chops down the giant trees, lays flat the towering forest-on-the-march. His ax will make toothpicks of that forest, that Lebanon-like army reduced to kindling.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom,.... Not according to his birth and pedigree; not according to his riches and wealth; not according to the places of honour and trust he may be in; but according to his wisdom, which he discovers in his words and actions, in his life and conversation: not according to the wisdom that is earthly, sensual, and devilish; not according to the wisdom of the world, which comes to nought, either natural or civil; especially that which lies in sophistry and subtlety, in wicked craft and cunning, whereby men trick, overreach, and defraud one another; but according to that which is spiritual and evangelical; which lies in the knowledge of Christ, and of God in Christ, and of those things which belong to salvation; the beginning of which is the fear of the Lord, and which comes from above, and is pure and peaceable. A man possessed of this is commended by all wise and good men, and by the Lord himself; as the wise man is by Christ, Matthew 7:24; who builds his house on a rock; for which reason it stands, as in the preceding verse;

but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised; and which appears by the perverse words he speaks against God and Christ; against his people, ways, and worship, as antichrist and his followers do; and by his perverse actions, which are contrary to the light of nature, to the law of God, and Gospel of Christ: and such vile persons are contemned in the eyes of all good men, and are had in abhorrence by the Lord himself; for such who despise him are lightly esteemed; see Proverbs 18:3.