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Proverbs 21:10

The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.

In Context

9It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman, and a house in common.

11When the scorner is punished, the simple becometh wise; and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

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Cross References

Psalms 36:4He deviseth wickedness up on his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good: he abhorreth not evil.

Psalms 52:3Thou hast loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

Psalms 112:9He scattereth abroad, he giveth to the needy; his righteousness abideth for ever: his horn shall be exalted with honour.

Proverbs 12:12The wicked desireth the net of evil [men]; but the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit].

Isaiah 32:6for the vile man will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:10

9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. See here, 1. What a great affliction it is to a man to have a brawling scolding woman for his wife, who upon every occasion, and often upon no occasion, breaks out into a passion, and chides either him or those about her, is fretful to herself and furious to her children and servants, and, in both, vexatious to her husband. If a man has a wide house, spacious and pompous, this will embitter the comfort of it to him— a… Read the whole commentary →

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