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

Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

The wicked desireth the net of evil men; but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

He deviseth wickedness up on his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good: he abhorreth not evil.

Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.

For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?

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

Findeth no favour

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also himself shall cry, and shall not be heard.

Ask thy young men, and they will tell thee. Therefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes; for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, what thy hand may find to thy servants, and to thy son David.

It is well with the man that is gracious and lendeth; he will sustain his cause in judgment.

for the vile man will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;

for judgment will be without mercy to him that has shewn no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.

Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.