Proverbs 21:10

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Summary

Proverbs 21:10

The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.

Soul

Findeth no favour

James 5:4

Bible References

Soul

Do not devise harm against your neighbor,

While he lives securely beside you.

The wicked man desires the booty of evil men,
But the root of the righteous yields fruit.

He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not despise evil.

Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

Findeth no favour

He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor
Will also cry himself and not be answered.

Ask your young men and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we have come on a festive day. Please give whatever you find at hand to your servants and to your son David.’”

It is well with the man who is gracious and lends;
He will maintain his cause in judgment.

For a fool speaks nonsense,
And his heart

inclines toward wickedness:

To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the Lord,
To

keep the hungry person unsatisfied

And to withhold drink from the thirsty.

“You who hate good and love evil,
Who tear off their skin from them
And their flesh from their bones,

For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.