Psalms 37:21
The wicked borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:9Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and yours eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry unto the LORD against you, and it be sin unto you.
Deuteronomy 28:43The stranger that is within you shall get up above you very high; and you shall come down very low.
Nehemiah 5:1And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Psalms 112:5A good man shows favour, and lends: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
Proverbs 22:7The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Isaiah 58:7Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not yourself from yours own flesh?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 37:8-21
Exhortations and Promises. 7 Rest in the Lord , and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. 9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord , they shall inherit the earth. 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. 11 But the meek shall… Read the whole commentary →