Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
The thoughts of the righteous are justice, The counsels of the wicked -- deceit.
New American Standard Bible
But the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
King James Version
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Holman Bible
but guidance from the wicked leads to deceit.
International Standard Version
The plans of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
A Conservative Version
The thoughts of the righteous are just. The counsels of the wicked are deceit.
American Standard Version
The thoughts of the righteous are just; But the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Amplified
The thoughts and purposes of the [consistently] righteous are just (honest, reliable),
But the counsels and schemes of the wicked are deceitful.
Bible in Basic English
The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.
Darby Translation
The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Julia Smith Translation
The purposes of the just are judgment: the guidance of the unjust, deceit
King James 2000
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The thoughts of the righteous are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous.
Modern King James verseion
The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The thoughts of the righteous are right; but the imagination of the ungodly are deceitful.
NET Bible
The plans of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
New Heart English Bible
The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
The Emphasized Bible
The plans of the righteous, are just, but, the counsels of the lawless, are deceitful.
Webster
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
World English Bible
The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
Themes
Counsel » The counsels of the wicked
Deceit » The wicked full of » Their counsels
Deception » What is deceit/deceitful
Righteousness » They who walk in and follow » Think and desire good
Topics
Interlinear
Machashabah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 12:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones is one causing shame. 5 The thoughts of the righteous are justice, The counsels of the wicked -- deceit. 6 The words of the wicked are: 'Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them.
Cross References
Psalm 12:2-3
Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.
Psalm 36:2-4
For he made it smooth to himself in his eyes, To find his iniquity to be hated.
Psalm 41:6-7
And if he came to see -- vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out -- at the street he speaketh.
Psalm 119:15
In Thy precepts I meditate, And I behold attentively Thy paths.
Psalm 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,
Psalm 140:1-3
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Jehovah, from an evil man, From one of violence Thou keepest me.
Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the righteous is only good, The hope of the wicked is transgression.
Proverbs 24:9
The thought of folly is sin, And an abomination to man is a scorner.
Isaiah 55:7
Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.
Jeremiah 4:14
Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?
Matthew 2:3-8
And Herod the king having heard, was stirred, and all Jerusalem with him,
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the mages, was very wroth, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the mages.
Matthew 26:4
and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill him,
1 Corinthians 4:5
so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.
2 Corinthians 4:2
but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;