Proverbs 12:10
The righteous person cares about the needs of his animal, 1 but even the compassion of the wicked is cruel. 1
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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
Cross References
Genesis 33:13Jacob said to him, “My master knows that the children are young, and that the sheep and the cattle are nursing their young. If they are driven hard even one day, all the animals will die.
Numbers 22:28Then Yahweh opened the donkey's mouth so she could talk. She said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that induced you to strike me these three times?”
Deuteronomy 25:4You must not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
1 Samuel 11:2Nahash the Ammonite replied, “On this condition will I make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all of your right eyes, and in this way bring disgrace on all Israel.”
John 4:11The woman said to him, “Sir, you do not have a bucket and the well is deep. Where then do you have the living water?
James 2:13For judgment comes without mercy to those who have shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs 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 →