Proverbs 17:13
When someone returns evil for good, 1 evil will never leave his house. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
In Context
12It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs 1 than to meet a fool in his foolishness. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 31:2The Philistines closely pursued Saul and his sons. The Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua, his sons.
2 Samuel 21:1There was a famine in David's time for three years in a row, and David sought the face of Yahweh. So Yahweh said, “This famine is on you because of Saul and his murderous family, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
Psalms 38:20They repay me evil for good; 1 they hurl accusations at me although I have pursued what is good. 1
Psalms 109:4In return for my love they accuse me, 1 but I pray for them. 1
Jeremiah 18:20Will disaster from them really be my reward for being good to them? For they have dug a pit for me. 1 Remember how I stood before you to speak for their welfare, to cause your fury to turn away from them. 1
Matthew 27:25All the people said, “May his blood be on us and our children.”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:13
Weighty Sayings. 12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly. Note, 1. A passionate man is a brutish man. However at other times he may have some wisdom, take him in his passion ungoverned, and he is a fool in his folly; those are fools in whose bosom anger rests and in whose countenance anger rages. He has put off man, and is become like a bear, a raging bear, a bear robbed of her whelps; he is as fond of the gratifications of his lusts and passions as a bear of her whelps… Read the whole commentary →