Proverbs 17:13
He that rewardeth euil for good, euil shall not depart from his house.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
In Context
12It is better for a man to meete a beare robbed of her whelpes, then a foole in his follie.
Cross References
1 Samuel 31:2And the Philistims preassed sore vpon Saul and his sonnes, and slewe Ionathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua Sauls sonnes.
2 Samuel 21:1Then there was a famine in the dayes of Dauid, three yeeres together: and Dauid asked counsell of the Lord, and the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloodie house, because hee slewe the Gibeonites.
Psalms 38:20They also, that rewarde euill for good, are mine aduersaries, because I follow goodnesse.
Psalms 109:4For my friendship they were mine aduersaries, but I gaue my selfe to praier.
Jeremiah 18:20Shall euill be recompensed for good? for they haue digged a pit for my soule: remember that I stood before thee, to speake good for the, and to turne away thy wrath from them.
Matthew 27:25Then answered all the people, and saide, His bloud be on vs, and on 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 →