Proverbs 14:22
Behold, those who contrive evil are in error; but kindness and truth attend on those who contrive what is good.
Leeser Tanakh
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 all painful labor there is profit; but mere words of the lips [lead] only to want.
Cross References
Genesis 24:27And he said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who hath not withdrawn his mercy and his truth from my master; I being on the way, which the Lord hath led me, to the house of the brethren of my master.
2 Chronicles 6:8But the Lord said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house unto my name, thou didst well in that it was in thy heart:
Psalms 61:7(61:8) May he abide for ever before God: ordain that kindness and truth may guard him.
Proverbs 6:14Perverseness is in his heart, he contriveth evil at all times; he scattereth abroad discord.
Proverbs 12:26The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor; but the way of the wicked leadeth them astray.
Proverbs 19:22The longing of a man is [to exercise] his kindness; and a poor man is better than a 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 →