Proverbs 12:3 {4}
Good News Translation
Wickedness does not give security, but righteous people stand firm.

New Revised Standard Version
No one finds security by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.

Contemporary English Version
Sin cannot offer security! But if you live right, you will be as secure as a tree with deep roots.

New American Bible
No one is made secure by wickedness, but the root of the just will never be disturbed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is as rottenness in his bones.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is as rottenness in his bones.

shall not be established

Proverbs 10:25 As vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that sent him.

Job 5:3-5 I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately. . . .

Job 15:1,2 And Eliphaz the Themanite, answered, and said: . . .

1 Samuel 25:33 And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day from coming to blood, and revenging me with my own hand.

Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted and founded in charity,

Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned: abounding in him in thanksgiving.

Context
Loving Discipline and Knowledge
2Man shall not be strengthened by wickedness: and the root of the just shall not be moved. 3A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is as rottenness in his bones.4The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.…
Cross References
Proverbs 10:25
As vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that sent him.

Proverbs 11:5
The justice of the righteous shall deliver them: and the unjust shall be caught in their own snares.

Proverbs 12:2
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