Proverbs 14:22
They err that work evil: but mercy and truth prepare good things.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
In Context
23In much work there shall be abundance: but where there are many words, there is oftentimes want.
Cross References
Genesis 24:27Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not taken away his mercy and truth from my master, and hath brought me the straight way into the house of my master's brother.
2 Chronicles 6:8The Lord said to him: Forasmuch as it was thy will to build a house to my name, thou hast done well indeed in having such a will:
Psalms 61:7Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years even to generation and generation.
Proverbs 6:14With a wicked heart he deviseth evil, and at all times he soweth discord.
Proverbs 12:26He that neglecteth a loss for the sake of a friend, is just: but the way of the wicked shall deceive them.
Proverbs 19:22A needy man is merciful: and better is the poor than the lying man.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:22
21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. See here how men's character and condition are measured and judged of by their conduct towards their poor neighbours. 1. Those that look upon them with contempt have here assigned them a bad character, and their condition will be accordingly: He that despises his neighbour because he is low in the world, because he is of a mean extraction, rustic education, and makes but a mean figure, that thinks it below him to take… Read the whole commentary →