Proverbs 29:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.

Proverbs 29:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 15:18-19
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. …
Genesis 4:5-8
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. …
1 John 3:12-13
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. …
1 Kings 21:20
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
1 Samuel 22:11-23
Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10)

Note, 1. Bad men hate their best friends: The blood-thirsty, all the seed of the old serpent, who was a murderer from the beginning, all that inherit his enmity against the seed of the woman, hate the upright; they seek the ruin of good men because they condemn the wicked world and witness against it. Christ told his disciples that they should be hated of all men. Bloody men do especially hate upr…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. bloodthirsty--(Compare Margin), murderers (Psa 5:6; 26:9). hate, &c.--(Pr 1:11; Ge 3:4). seek ... soul--that is, to preserve it.