Proverbs 14:22
Do not they err who are devising evil? And kindness and truth [are] to those devising good,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
In Context
21Whoso is despising his neighbour sinneth, Whoso is favouring the humble, O his happiness.
23In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips [is] only to want.
Cross References
Genesis 24:27and saith, 'Blessed [is] Jehovah, God of my lord Abraham, who hath not left off His kindness and His truth with my lord; — I [being] in the way, Jehovah hath led me to the house of my lord's brethren.'
2 Chronicles 6:8and Jehovah saith unto David my father, Because that it hath been with thy heart to build a house for My name, thou hast done well that it hath been with thy heart,
Psalms 61:7He dwelleth to the age before God, Kindness and truth appoint — they keep him.
Proverbs 6:14Frowardness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.
Proverbs 12:26The righteous searcheth his companion, And the way of the wicked causeth them to err.
Proverbs 19:22The desirableness of a man [is] his kindness, And better [is] the poor than a liar.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:22
21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. See here how men's character and condition are measured and judged of by their conduct towards their poor neighbours. 1. Those that look upon them with contempt have here assigned them a bad character, and their condition will be accordingly: He that despises his neighbour because he is low in the world, because he is of a mean extraction, rustic education, and makes but a mean figure, that thinks it below him to take… Read the whole commentary →