Proverbs 14:22
They that go astray devise evils: but the good devise mercy and truth. The framers of evil do not understand mercy and truth: but compassion and faithfulness are with the framers of good.
Brenton Septuagint
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
21He that dishonours the needy sins: but he that has pity on the poor is most blessed.
Cross References
Genesis 24:27and said, Blessed be the Lord the God of my master Abraam, who has not suffered his righteousness to fail, nor his truth from my master, and the Lord has brought me prosperously to the house of the brother of my lord.
2 Chronicles 6:8But the Lord said to my father David, Whereas it came into thy heart to build a house for my name, thou didst well that it came into thy heart.
Psalms 61:7For he is my God and my Saviour; my helper, I shall not be moved.
Proverbs 6:14His perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.
Proverbs 12:26A just arbitrator shall be his own friend; but mischief shall pursue sinners; and the way of ungodly men shall lead them astray.
Proverbs 19:22Mercy is a fruit to a man: and a poor man is better than a rich liar.
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 →