Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

The soul of the unjust one desired evil: his neighbor shall not be compassionated in his eyes.

New American Standard Bible

The soul of the wicked desires evil;
His neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

A wicked person desires evil;
he has no consideration for his neighbor.

International Standard Version

The soul of the wicked craves evil; he extends no mercy to his neighbor.

A Conservative Version

The soul of a wicked man desires evil. His neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

American Standard Version

The soul of the wicked desireth evil: His neighbor findeth no favor in his eyes.

Amplified


The soul of the wicked desires evil [like an addictive substance];
His neighbor finds no compassion in his eyes.

Bible in Basic English

The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour.

Darby Translation

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

King James 2000

The soul of the wicked desires evil: his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor will not find mercy in his eyes.

Modern King James verseion

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The soul of the ungodly wisheth evil; and hath no pity upon his neighbour.

NET Bible

The appetite of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor is shown no favor in his eyes.

New Heart English Bible

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

The Emphasized Bible

The soul of the lawless man, craveth mischief, his own friend, findeth no favour in his eyes.

Webster

The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbor findeth no favor in his eyes.

World English Bible

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

Youngs Literal Translation

The soul of the wicked hath desired evil, Not gracious in his eyes is his neighbour.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

of the wicked
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

אוה 
'avah 
Usage: 26

Verse Info

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

9 Good to dwell upon the corner of the roof rather than with a woman of strifes and a house of community. 10 The soul of the unjust one desired evil: his neighbor shall not be compassionated in his eyes. 11 In punishing him mocking, the simple shall become wise: and in instruction to the wise one he will take knowledge.

Cross References

1 Samuel 25:8-11

Ask thy boys and they will announce to thee. And the boys will find favor in thine eyes, for upon a good day we come: wilt thou give now what thy hand shall find to thy servants, and to thy son David?

Psalm 36:4

He will purpose vanity upon his bed; he will set himself upon a way not good; he will not reject evil

Psalm 52:2-3

Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit.

Psalm 112:5

A good man, being merciful and lending: he will hold up his words in judgment;

Psalm 112:9

He scattered, he gave to the needy; his justice stands forever; his horn shall be exalted in glory.

Proverbs 3:29

Thou shalt not fabricate evil upon thy neighbor, and he dwelling confidently with thee.

Proverbs 12:12

The unjust one desired the net of the evil: and the root of the just will give.

Proverbs 21:13

He stopping his ear from the cry of the poor one also himself shall call and shall not be answered.

Isaiah 32:6-8

For the foolish will speak folly, and his heart will do vanity to do profaneness and to speak error to Jehovah, to empty the soul of the hungry; and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Micah 3:2-3

Hating the good and loving the evil; plucking off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones.

Mark 7:21-22

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

1 Corinthians 10:6

And these things were our types, that we be not eagerly desirous of evil things, as they also eagerly desired.

James 2:13

For unpropitiated judgment to him not doing mercy; and mercy boasteth against judgment.

James 4:1-5

Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members

James 5:4-6

Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

1 John 2:16

For every thing which in the world, the eager desire of the flesh, and the eager desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

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