Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Proverbs 12:26
more excellent—(Compare Margin); or, "more successful," while the wicked fail; or, we may read it: "The righteous guides his friend, but," etc., that is, The ability of the righteous to aid others is contrasted with the ruin to which the way of the wicked leads themselves.
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