Proverbs 12:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

The thoughts of the righteous `are' justice, The counsels of the wicked -- deceit.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 12:2-3 : 2 Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak. 3 Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,
  • Ps 36:2-4 : 2 For he made `it' smooth to himself in his eyes, To find his iniquity to be hated. 3 The words of his mouth `are' iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good. 4 Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'
  • Ps 41:6-7 : 6 And if he came to see -- vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out -- at the street he speaketh. 7 All hating me whisper together against me, Against me they devise evil to me:
  • Ps 119:15 : 15 In Thy precepts I meditate, And I behold attentively Thy paths.
  • Ps 139:23 : 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,
  • Ps 140:1-3 : 1 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Jehovah, from an evil man, From one of violence Thou keepest me. 2 Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble `for' wars. 3 They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder `is' under their lips. Selah.
  • Prov 11:23 : 23 The desire of the righteous `is' only good, The hope of the wicked `is' transgression.
  • Prov 24:9 : 9 The thought of folly `is' sin, And an abomination to man `is' a scorner.
  • Isa 55:7 : 7 Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?
  • Matt 2:3-8 : 3 And Herod the king having heard, was stirred, and all Jerusalem with him, 4 and having gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he was inquiring from them where the Christ is born. 5 And they said to him, `In Beth-Lehem of Judea, for thus it hath been written through the prophet, 6 And thou, Beth-Lehem, the land of Judah, thou art by no means the least among the leaders of Judah, for out of thee shall come one leading, who shall feed My people Israel.' 7 Then Herod, privately having called the mages, did inquire exactly from them the time of the appearing star, 8 and having sent them to Beth-Lehem, he said, `Having gone -- inquire ye exactly for the child, and whenever ye may have found, bring me back word, that I also having come may bow to him.'
  • Matt 2:16 : 16 Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the mages, was very wroth, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the mages.
  • Matt 26:4 : 4 and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill `him',
  • 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

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    30The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment.

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    6Blessings `are' for the head of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.

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    20The tongue of the righteous `is' chosen silver, The heart of the wicked -- as a little thing.

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    3The integrity of the upright leadeth them, And the perverseness of the treacherous destroyeth them.

  • Job 22:18
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    18And he hath filled their houses `with' good: (And the counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

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    15Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.

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    12The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

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    2The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.

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    16Better `is' the little of the righteous, Than the store of many wicked.

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    23Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.

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    2For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.

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    7Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts `are' thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction `are' in their highways.