Proverbs 12:8 KJV

Proverbs · chapter 12 · verse 8

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.Proverbs 12:8 · King James Version

Proverbs 12:8 in context

6The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

7The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

8A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

9He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

10A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

We are here told whence to expect a good name. Reputation is what most have a high regard to and stand much upon. Now it is certain, 1.

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary