Proverbs 12:10
Good people look after their animals, but the care given by wicked is really cruelty.
Free Bible 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 to be a humble man serving himself than a boastful man who has nothing to eat.
Cross References
Genesis 33:13“My lord can see that the children are weak,” Jacob responded. “Also, the goats, sheep, and cattle are nursing their young, and if I push them too hard, they'll all die.
Numbers 22:28The Lord gave the donkey the ability to speak and it said to Balaam, “What have I done to you for you to beat me three times?”
Deuteronomy 25:4Don't muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
1 Samuel 11:2But Nahash the Ammonite responded, “I'll make a peace treaty with you on one condition: that I gouge out everyone's right eye to bring shame on all Israelites.”
John 4:11“Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get the water of life from?” she replied.
James 2:13Anyone who doesn't show mercy will be judged without mercy. Yet mercy wins out over 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 →