Proverbs 12:10
The righteous knows the life of his beast, || And the mercies of the wicked [are] cruel.
Literal Standard 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 [is] the lightly esteemed who has a servant, || Than the self-honored who lacks bread.
Cross References
Genesis 33:13And he says to him, “My lord knows that the children [are] tender, and the suckling flock and the herd [are] with me; when they have beaten them one day, then all the flock has died.
Numbers 22:28And YHWH opens the mouth of the donkey, and she says to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have struck me these three times?”
Deuteronomy 25:4You do not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
1 Samuel 11:2And Nahash the Ammonite says to them, “For this I cut [a covenant] with you, in picking out every right eye of yours—and I have set it [for] a reproach on all Israel.”
John 4:11The woman says to Him, “Lord, You do not even have a vessel to draw with, and the well is deep; from where, then, have You the living water?
James 2:13for the judgment without mercy [is] to him having not done mercy, and mercy exults 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 →