Proverbs 21:10
The soul of the wicked has desired evil, his neighbor is not gracious in his eyes.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.
In Context
9Better to sit on a corner of the roof, || Than [with] a woman of contentions and a house of company.
Cross References
Psalms 36:4He devises iniquity on his bed, || He stations himself on a way not good, || He does not refuse evil.”
Psalms 52:3You have loved evil rather than good, || Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.
Psalms 112:9He has scattered—has given to the needy, || His righteousness is standing forever, || His horn is exalted with glory.
Proverbs 12:12The wicked has desired the net of evildoers, || And the root of the righteous gives.
Isaiah 32:6For a fool speaks folly, || And his heart does iniquity, to do profanity, || And to speak error concerning YHWH, || To empty the soul of the hungry, || Indeed, he causes the thirsty to lack [their] drink.
Mark 7:21for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, 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 →