English Standard Version
Proverbs 21:10
10The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
Proverbs 21:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.
- New International Version (NIV)The wicked crave evil; their neighbors get no mercy from them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The soul of the wicked desires evil; His neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Evil people desire evil; their neighbors get no mercy from them.
Context of Proverbs 21:10
8The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright. 9It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife. The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes. 11When a scoffer is punished, the simple becomes wise; when a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge. 12The Righteous One observes the house of the wicked; he throws the wicked down to ruin.
Read all of Proverbs 21Proverbs 21:10 word by word
נֶ֣פֶשׁ רָ֭שָׁע אִוְּתָה־רָ֑ע לֹא־יֻחַ֖ן בְּעֵינָ֣יו רֵעֵֽהוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 21:10
- Proverbs 3:29Do not plan evil against your neighbor, who dwells trustingly beside you.
- Proverbs 12:12Whoever is wicked covets the spoil of evildoers, but the root of the righteous bears fruit.
- Psalms 36:4He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.
- Psalms 52:2Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
- Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
- 1 Corinthians 10:6Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.
- James 4:1What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
- 1 John 2:16For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
- Proverbs 21:13Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.
- 1 Samuel 25:8Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.'"
- Psalms 112:5It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.
- Isaiah 32:6For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
- Micah 3:2you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones,
- James 2:13For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
- James 5:4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
Commentaries on Proverbs 21:10
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10Verse 10 The evil desires of a wicked man's heart, lead to baseness in his conduct.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10Evil people do not just do bad things; they are bad. No argument will change their behavior.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. So strongly does he desire to do evil (Psa 10:3; Ec 8:11), that he will not even spare his friend if in his way.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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