Proverbs 12:5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. Take a river — let it be dammed and stopped up, yet, if the course of it be natural, if the vent and stream of it be to go downward, at length it will overbear, and ride triumphantly over: or let water that is sweet be made brackish by the coming in of the salt water; yet, if it naturally be sweet, at the length it will work it out. So it is with every man; look what the constant stream of his disposition is, look what the frame of it is; if it is grace, that which is now natural and inward to a man, though it may be dammed up, and stopped in such a: course for a while, yet it will break through all at the last; and though there be some brackish and some sinful dispositions that may break in upon a man, yet by the grace of God he will wear them out, because his natural disposition, the frame: of his heart, runs another way. (J. Pulsford.) Parallel Verses KJV: The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.WEB: The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful. |
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