Proverbes 28:12

12 Quand les justes se réjouissent, la gloire est grande; mais quand les méchants s'élèvent, chacun se cache.

Proverbes 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.

Proverbes 28:12 In-Context

10 Celui qui fait égarer les hommes droits dans un mauvais chemin, tombera dans la fosse qu'il aura faite; mais les hommes intègres hériteront le bonheur.

11 L'homme riche pense être sage; mais le pauvre qui est intelligent le sondera.

12 Quand les justes se réjouissent, la gloire est grande; mais quand les méchants s'élèvent, chacun se cache.

13 Celui qui cache ses transgressions, ne prospérera point; mais celui qui les confesse et qui les abandonne, obtiendra miséricorde.

14 Heureux est l'homme qui est continuellement dans la crainte; mais celui qui endurcit son cœur tombera dans la calamité.