Proverbs 12:12
The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
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desireth

Proverbs 1:17-19
How futile to spread the net where any bird can see it. . . .

Proverbs 29:5, 6
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet. . . .

Psalm 9:15
The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are snared in the net they have hidden.

Psalm 10:9
He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his dragnet.

Jeremiah 5:26-28
For My people are among wicked men. They watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap; they catch men. . . .

Micah 7:2
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt each other with a net.

Habakkuk 1:15-17
The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook; they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragnet; so they are glad and rejoice. . . .

net or fortress

Proverbs 10:15
The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

the root

Psalm 1:3
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

Isaiah 27:6
In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.

Isaiah 37:31
And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.

Jeremiah 17:7, 8
But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is Him. . . .

Luke 8:13-15
The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away. . . .

John 15:5, 16
I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing. . . .

Romans 6:22
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
The wicked man desires the booty of evil men, But the root of the righteous yields fruit.

King James Bible
The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The wicked desire what evil men have, but the root of the righteous produces fruit.

International Standard Version
The wicked desires what evil people gain, but the foundation of the righteous is productive.

NET Bible
The wicked person desires a stronghold, but the righteous root endures.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The evil one lusts to do evil, and the root of the righteous ones will sprout.
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