Proverbs 21:10
The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.
In Context
9It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
Cross References
Psalms 36:4He deviseth iniquity upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
Psalms 52:3Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah
Psalms 112:9He hath dispersed, he hath given to the needy; his righteousness endureth for ever: his horn shall be exalted with honour.
Proverbs 12:12The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
Isaiah 32:6For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
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 →