Proverbs 12:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

According to his wisdom is a man praised, And the perverted of heart becometh despised.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 41:39 : 39 and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou;
  • 1 Sam 13:13 : 13 And Samuel saith unto Saul, `Thou hast been foolish; thou hast not kept the command of Jehovah thy God, which He commanded thee, for now had Jehovah established thy kingdom over Israel unto the age;
  • 1 Sam 16:18 : 18 And one of the servants answereth and saith, `Lo, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-Lehemite, skilful in playing, and a mighty virtuous man, and a man of battle, and intelligent in word, and a man of form, and Jehovah `is' with him.'
  • 1 Sam 18:30 : 30 And the princes of the Philistines come out, and it cometh to pass from the time of their coming out, David hath acted more wisely than any of the servants of Saul, and his name is very precious.
  • 1 Sam 25:17 : 17 `And, now, know and consider what thou dost; for evil hath been determined against our lord, and against all his house, and he `is' too much a son of worthlessness to be spoken to.'
  • Ps 132:18 : 18 His enemies I do clothe `with' shame, And upon him doth his crown flourish!
  • Prov 1:26 : 26 I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,
  • Prov 3:35 : 35 Honour do the wise inherit, And fools are bearing away shame!
  • Prov 5:23 : 23 He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!
  • Eccl 8:1 : 1 Who `is' as the wise? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? The wisdom of man causeth his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
  • Dan 12:2 : 2 `And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches -- to abhorrence age-during.
  • Mal 2:8-9 : 8 And ye, ye have turned from the way, Ye have caused many to stumble in the law, Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, Said Jehovah of Hosts. 9 And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.
  • Matt 27:4-5 : 4 `I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, `What -- to us? thou shalt see!' 5 and having cast down the silverlings in the sanctuary, he departed, and having gone away, he did strangle himself.
  • Luke 12:42-44 : 42 And the Lord said, `Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure? 43 Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so; 44 truly I say to you, that over all his goods he will set him.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 `And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light, in respect to their generation.
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.
  • 1 Cor 3:10-15 : 10 According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on `it', 11 for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ; 12 and if any one doth build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw -- 13 of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare `it', because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove; 14 if of any one the work doth remain that he built on `it', a wage he shall receive; 15 if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.
  • 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 10:18 : 18 for not he who is commending himself is approved, but he whom the Lord doth commend.

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