Proverbs 11:12

WEB

¹²One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

KJV

¹²He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.

BSB

¹²Whoever shows contempt for his neighbor lacks judgment, but a man of understanding remains silent.

FBV

¹²People who run down their neighbors have no sense; someone who's sensible keeps quiet.

Extra References

Proverbs 10:19

¹⁹In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

1 Peter 2:23

²³When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

Luke 18:9

⁹He also spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others:

Luke 16:14

¹⁴^[+] The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

Proverbs 14:21

²¹He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

Psalms 123:3-4

³Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt. ⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

Judges 9:38

³⁸Then Zebul said to him, “Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them.”

²⁷They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, celebrated, and went into the house of their god and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech. ²⁸Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him? ²⁹I wish that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech.” He said to Abimelech, “Increase your army and come out!”

Nehemiah 4:2-4

²He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”

³Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”

⁴“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.

John 7:48-52

⁴⁸Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”

⁵⁰Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, ⁵¹“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”

⁵²They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”