Proverbs 21:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נֶ֣פֶשׁ רָ֭שָׁע אִוְּתָה־רָ֑ע לֹא־יֻחַ֖ן בְּעֵינָ֣יו רֵעֵֽהוּ

Transliteration

nepeš rāšāʿ ʾiwwĕtāh-rāʿ not-yuḥan in-ʿênāyw rēʿēhû

Grammar Details

• *nepeš*: construct singular noun - soul of
• *rāšāʿ*: masculine singular noun - wicked person
• *ʾiwwĕtāh*: 3rd feminine singular perfect - she desires
• *rāʿ*: masculine singular noun/adjective - evil
• *yuḥan*: 3rd masculine singular hophal imperfect - will be shown favor
• *ʿênāyw*: plural noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his eyes
• *rēʿēhû*: masculine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his neighbor

Word Meanings

• *nepeš*: soul/being/desire/life
• *rāšāʿ*: wicked person/evildoer
• *ʾiwwĕtāh*: desires/craves/longs for
• *rāʿ*: evil/wickedness/harm
• *yuḥan*: will be shown favor/will be pitied
• *rēʿēhû*: his neighbor/friend/companion

Referenced Verses

• Prov 3:29 : 29 Devise not evil against thy neighbor, Seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
• Mic 3:2-3 : 2 ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
• Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, 22 covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:
• 1 Cor 10:6 : 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
• Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment [is] without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: {G2532} mercy glorieth against judgment.
• Jas 4:1-5 : 1 Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot {G3756} obtain: ye fight and war; {G1161} ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures. 4 Ye {G3432} {G2532} adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever {G302} therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God. 5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
• Jas 5:4-6 : 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts {G5613} in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one]; he doth not resist you.
• 1 John 2:16 : 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
• Prov 12:12 : 12 The wicked desireth the net of evil men; But the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit].
• Prov 21:13 : 13 Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, He also shall cry, but shall not be heard.
• Isa 32:6-8 : 6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7 And the instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. 8 But the noble deviseth noble things; and in noble things shall he continue.
• 1 Sam 25:8-9 : 8 Ask thy young men, and they will tell thee: wherefore let the young men find favor in thine eyes; for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thy hand, unto thy servants, and to thy son David. 9 And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased. 10 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master. 11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men of whom I know not whence they are?
• Ps 36:4 : 4 He deviseth iniquity upon his bed; He setteth himself in a way that is not good; He abhorreth not evil.
• Ps 52:2-3 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. {H5542}
• Ps 112:5 : 5 Well is it with the man that dealeth graciously and lendeth; He shall maintain his cause in judgment.
• Ps 112:9 : 9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the needy; His righteousness endureth for ever: His horn shall be exalted with honor.