Proverbs 21:10
Wicked people [SYN] are always wanting to do what is evil; they never act mercifully toward anyone.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 36:4While they are lying on their beds, they plan to do things to harm others; they are determined to do things that are not good, and they never refuse to do what is evil.
Psalms 52:3You like doing what is evil more than you like doing what is good, and you like telling lies more than you like telling the truth. (Think about that!)
Psalms 112:9They give things generously to poor/needy people; the results of their kind deeds will endure forever, and they will be exalted and honored.
Proverbs 12:12Wicked people desire to take away what other evil people have, but Yahweh enables righteous/godly people to be steadfast and productive [MET].
Isaiah 32:6Foolish people say things that are foolish, and they plan to do evil things. Their behavior is disgraceful, and they say things about Yahweh that are false. They do not give food to those who are hungry, and they do not give water to those who are thirsty.
Mark 7:21Specifically, it is people’s innermost being that causes them to think things that are evil; they act immorally, they steal things, they commit murder.
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 →