Proverbs 21:10
Good News Translation
Wicked people are always hungry for evil; they have no mercy on anyone.

New Revised Standard Version
The souls of the wicked desire evil; their neighbors find no mercy in their eyes.

Contemporary English Version
Evil people want to do wrong, even to their friends.

New American Bible
The soul of the wicked desires evil; their neighbor finds no pity in their eyes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The soul of the wicked desireth evil, he will not have pity on his neighbour.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The soul of the wicked desireth evil, he will not have pity on his neighbour.

soul

Proverbs 3:29 Strive not against a man without cause, when he hath done thee no evil.

Proverbs 12:12 The desire of the wicked is the fortification of evil men: but the root of the just shall prosper.

Psalm 36:4 He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated.

Psalm 52:2,3 All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit. . . .

Mark 7:21,22 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, . . .

1 Corinthians 10:6 Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted.

James 4:1-5 From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members? . . .

1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the Father but is of the world.

findeth no favour

Proverbs 21:13 He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself, and shall not be heard.

1 Samuel 25:8-11 Ask thy servants, and they will tell thee. Now therefore let thy servants find favour in thy eyes: for we are come in a good day, whatsoever thy hand shall find give to thy servants, and to thy son David. . . .

Psalm 112:5,9 Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall order his words with judgment: . . .

Isaiah 32:6-8 For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and to make empty the soul of the hungry, and take away drink from the thirsty. . . .

Micah 3:2,3 And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment, . . .

James 2:13 For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

James 5:4-6 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. . . .

Context
The King's Heart
9It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house. 10The soul of the wicked desireth evil, he will not have pity on his neighbour.11When a pestilent man is punished, the little one will be wiser: and if he follow the wise, he will receive knowledge.…
Cross References
Psalm 52:3
Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.

Proverbs 2:14
Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.

Proverbs 12:12
The desire of the wicked is the fortification of evil men: but the root of the just shall prosper.

Proverbs 14:21
He that despiseth his neighbour, sinneth: but he that sheweth mercy to the poor, shall be blessed. He that believeth in the Lord, loveth mercy.

Proverbs 21:9
It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.

Proverbs 21:9
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