Proverbs 12:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ A [consistently] righteous man regards the life of his beast, but even the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. [Deut. 25:4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ The righteous care about their livestock’s needs, but even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ The just one knows the lives of his beasts. But the inner most parts of the impious are cruel.

Proverbs 12:10 Cross References

Deuteronomy 25:4

“You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

1 John 3:17

How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?

John 4:11

The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?

Judges 1:7

Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has paid me back.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

1 Samuel 11:2

But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make a treaty with you, namely, that I gouge out everyone’s right eye and thus put disgrace upon all Israel.”

1 Corinthians 9:9

For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?

Proverbs 12:9

Better to be despised and have produce than to be self-important and lack food.

Isaiah 36:17

until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.