Proverbs 12:10

The Message

Good people are good to their animals; the “good-hearted” bad people kick and abuse them.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 25:4

Don’t muzzle an ox while it is threshing.

John 4:11

The woman said, “Sir, you don’t even have a bucket to draw with, and this well is deep. So how are you going to get this ‘living water’? Are you a better man than our ancestor Jacob, who dug this well and drank from it, he and his sons and livestock, and passed it down to us?”

1 Samuel 11:2

Nahash said, “I’ll make a treaty with you on one condition: that every right eye among you be gouged out! I’ll humiliate every last man and woman in Israel before I’m done!”

Proverbs 12:9

Better to be ordinary and work for a living than act important and starve in the process.