SEV Biblia, Chapter 28:12
¶ Cuando los justos se alegran, grande es la gloria; mas cuando los impíos son levantados, el hombre cuerdo se esconderá.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 28:12
Verse 12. When righteous men do rejoice ] When true religion is no longer persecuted, and the word of God duly esteemed, there is great glory; for the word of the Lord has then free course, runs, and is glorified: but when the wicked rise-when they are elevated to places of trust, and put at the head of civil affairs, then the righteous man is obliged to hide himself; the word of the Lord becomes scarce, and there is no open vision. The first vas the case in this country, in the days of Edward VI.; the second in the days of his successor, MARY i. Popery, cruelty, and knavery, under her, nearly destroyed the Church and the State in these islands.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. When righteous [men] do rejoice, [there is] great glory , etc.] When it is well with them; when they are in prosperous circumstances; when they are countenanced and encouraged by the government under which they are; when they have the free exercise of their religion; and especially when they are advanced to places of profit, honour, and trust, which must make them cheerful and joyful; it is a glory to a land, it adds greatly to the glory of it, and a fine prospect there is of the increase and continuance of it; but when the wicked rise : to honour and dignity, and are set in high places, and are in great power and authority, which they exercise to the distress of the righteous and all good men: a man is hidden : a good man; he hides himself, as in ( Proverbs 28:28); he withdraws himself from court, from city, from company, from commerce, and business, because of the tyranny and persecution of wicked men; and flees to distant places, and wanders in deserts and mountains, in caves and dens of the earth; as some saints, under the Old Testament, did, and as the Church, in Gospel times, fled from the tyranny of antichrist into the wilderness, to hide herself: or, “a man is” or “shall be sought for” f780 , and searched out; as wicked persecutors are very diligent to search for and find out such persons that hide themselves, and fetch them out of their hiding places, and cruelly use them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12 - There is glory in the land when the righteous have liberty.
Original Hebrew
בעלץ 5970 צדיקים 6662 רבה 7227 תפארת 8597 ובקום 6965 רשׁעים 7563 יחפשׂ 2664 אדם׃ 120
