Proverbs 22:12

12 The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.

Proverbs 22:12 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
English Standard Version (ESV)
12 The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the traitor.
New Living Translation (NLT)
12 The LORD preserves those with knowledge, but he ruins the plans of the treacherous.
The Message Bible (MSG)
12 God guards knowledge with a passion, but he'll have nothing to do with deception.
American Standard Version (ASV)
12 The eyes of Jehovah preserve [him that hath] knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
12 The LORD's eyes watch over knowledge, but he overturns the words of a treacherous person.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
12 The Lord's eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He overthrows the words of the treacherous.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
12 The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge. But he does away with the words of those who aren't faithful.

Proverbs 22:12 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 22:12

The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge
That is, the providence of God, whose eyes run to and fro throughout the whole earth; these preserve the knowledge of himself, even among the Heathens in some measure; for what may be known of God is manifest in them, and showed to them: more particularly his providence has preserved the Scriptures, the means of knowledge, which men would have destroyed; and preserves men of knowledge, as Aben Ezra interprets it, the ministers of the word, the stars he holds in his right hand; and he preserves spiritual and experimental knowledge in the hearts of his people, and causes it to increase; and continues his Gospel and a Gospel ministry in the world, till they all come to the unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God. Or his eyes observe, look unto with delight and pleasure, knowledge and men of knowledge, that know him, and do his will; and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor;
the perfidious, treacherous man; the false teacher, that corrupts the word of God, and handles it deceitfully: the doctrines of such he overthrows, and confutes, and brings to nothing, by his Spirit in his faithful ministers; and causes truth to prevail, and all iniquity to stop its mouth: particularly the words and doctrines of the great transgressor, the lawless and wicked one, the man of sin, antichrist; these have been exposed and overthrown already, and will be more and more so in God's due time.

Proverbs 22:12 In-Context

10 Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.
11 One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend.
12 The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
13 The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside! I’ll be killed in the public square!”
14 The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit; a man who is under the LORD’s wrath falls into it.
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