Proverbios 28:12

12 Cuando los justos triunfan, grande es la gloria, pero cuando los impíos se levantan, los hombres se esconden.

Proverbios 28:12 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 28:12

When righteous [men] do rejoice, [there is] great glory
When it is well with them; when they are in prosperous circumstances; when they are countenanced and encouraged by the government under which they are; when they have the free exercise of their religion; and especially when they are advanced to places of profit, honour, and trust, which must make them cheerful and joyful; it is a glory to a land, it adds greatly to the glory of it, and a fine prospect there is of the increase and continuance of it; but when the wicked rise:
to honour and dignity, and are set in high places, and are in great power and authority, which they exercise to the distress of the righteous and all good men: a man is hidden:
a good man; he hides himself, as in ( Proverbs 28:28 ) ; he withdraws himself from court, from city, from company, from commerce, and business, because of the tyranny and persecution of wicked men; and flees to distant places, and wanders in deserts and mountains, in caves and dens of the earth; as some saints, under the Old Testament, did, and as the Church, in Gospel times, fled from the tyranny of antichrist into the wilderness, to hide herself: or, "a man is" or "shall be sought for" ^F9, and searched out; as wicked persecutors are very diligent to search for and find out such persons that hide themselves, and fetch them out of their hiding places, and cruelly use them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (vpxy) "investigabitur", Pagninus, Montanus; "exploratur", Tigurine version; "explorabitur", Baynus; "pervestigatur", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis.

Proverbios 28:12 In-Context

10 El que extravía a los rectos por el mal camino, en su propia fosa caerá; pero los íntegros heredarán el bien.

11 El rico es sabio ante sus propios ojos, mas el pobre que es entendido, lo sondea.

12 Cuando los justos triunfan, grande es la gloria, pero cuando los impíos se levantan, los hombres se esconden.

13 El que encubre sus pecados no prosperará, mas el que los confiesa y los abandona hallará misericordia.

14 Cuán bienaventurado es el hombre que siempre teme, pero el que endurece su corazón caerá en el infortunio.