Proverbs 21:10
The soul of the wicked desireth evil, he will not have pity on his neighbour.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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 sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.
Cross References
Psalms 36:4Delight in the Lord, and he will give thee the requests of thy heart.
Psalms 52:3God looked down from heaven on the children of men: to see if there were any that did understand, or did seek God.
Psalms 112:9Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.
Proverbs 12:12The desire of the wicked is the fortification of evil men: but the root of the just shall prosper.
Isaiah 32:6For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and to make empty the soul of the hungry, and take away drink from the thirsty.
Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed 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 →