The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.
Note, 1. We are really as we are with God. Those are happy, truly happy, for ever happy, that obtain favour of the Lord, though the world frown upon them, and they find little favour with men; for in God's favour is life, and that is the fountain of all good.
A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord,.... One that is made so by the grace of God, for no man is so naturally; there is none good, nor does good, no, not one, until some good thing is put into him, or the good work of grace is begun in him.
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed upon the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner. (t) Will be punished as he deserves, .
Commenting on Proverbs 12:1-2