Proverbs 12:10
The just one knows the lives of his beasts. But the inner most parts of the impious are cruel.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
In Context
9Better is a pauper who has what he needs, than someone glorious and in need of bread.
Cross References
Genesis 33:13And Jacob said: “My lord, you know that I have with me tender little ones, and sheep, and cows with young. If I cause these to labor too much in walking, all the flocks will die in one day.
Numbers 22:28And the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said: “What have I done to you? Why do strike you me, behold now, for the third time?”
Deuteronomy 25:4You shall not muzzle an ox as it is treading out your crops in the field.
1 Samuel 11:2And Nahash the Ammonite responded to them, “With this will I strike a pact with you: if I may pluck out all your right eyes, and set you as a disgrace against all of Israel.”
John 4:11The woman said to him: “Lord, you do not have anything with which to draw water, and the well is deep. From where, then, do you have living water?
James 2:13For judgment is without mercy toward him who has not shown mercy. But mercy exalts itself above judgment.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:10
9 He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread. Note, 1. It is the folly of some that they covet to make a great figure abroad, take place, and take state, as persons of quality, and yet want necessaries at home, and, if their debts were paid, would not be worth a morsel of bread, nay, perhaps, pinch their bellies to put it on their backs, that they may appear very gay, because fine feathers make fine birds. 2. The condition and character of those is every… Read the whole commentary →