Proverbs 11:17

Bishops' Bible (1568)

He that is mercifull, doth hym selfe a benefite: but who so hurteth his neyghbour, is a tiraunt.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

גֹּמֵ֣ל נַ֭פְשׁוֹ אִ֣ישׁ חָ֑סֶד וְעֹכֵ֥ר שְׁ֝אֵר֗וֹ אַכְזָרִֽי׃

Transliteration

Gōmēl napšô ʾîš ḥāsed wəʿōkēr šəʾērô ʾakzārî.

Grammar Details

• *Gōmēl*: verb Qal participle masculine singular - doing good to
• *napšô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his soul
• *ʾîš*: masculine singular noun - man
• *ḥāsed*: masculine singular noun - kindness/mercy
• *wəʿōkēr*: conjunction + verb Qal participle masculine singular - and troubling
• *šəʾērô*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his flesh/body
• *ʾakzārî*: masculine singular adjective - cruel

Word Meanings

• *Gōmēl*: doing good to/benefiting/rewarding
• *napšô*: his soul/self/life
• *ʾîš*: man/person
• *ḥāsed*: kindness/mercy/loyalty/faithfulness
• *ʿōkēr*: troubling/disturbing/bringing misfortune to
• *šəʾērô*: his flesh/body/relatives
• *ʾakzārî*: cruel/brutal/fierce

Referenced Verses

• Matt 5:7 : 7 Blessed (are) the mercyfull: for they shall obteyne mercy.
• Matt 25:34-40 : 34 Then shall the king say vnto them on his right hande: Come ye blessed of my father, inherite the kyngdome, prepared for you from the foundation of the worlde. 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me meate: I was thirstie, and ye gaue me drynke: I was harbourlesse, and ye toke me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: Sicke, and ye visited me: I was in pryson, and ye came vnto me. 37 Then shall the ryghteous aunswere hym, saying: Lorde, when sawe we thee an hungred, & fedde thee? or thirstie and gaue thee drynke? 38 When sawe we thee harbourlesse, and toke thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 Or when sawe we thee sicke, or in prison, and came vnto thee? 40 And the kyng shall aunswere, and say vnto them: Ueryly I say vnto you, in as much as ye haue done it vnto one of the least of these my brethren, ye haue done it vnto me.
• Luke 6:38 : 38 Geue, and it shalbe geuen vnto you: good measure, pressed downe, & shaken together, and runnyng ouer, shall men geue into your bosomes. For with the same measure that ye meate withall, shall other men meate to you agayne.
• 2 Cor 9:6-9 : 6 This yet I say he which soweth litle, shall reape litle: and he that soweth in geuyng largely and freely, shall reape plenteouslie. 7 Let euery man do, accordyng as he hath purposed in his heart, not grudgyngly, or of necessitie: For God loueth a chearefull geuer. 8 God is able to make you riche in all grace, that ye in all thynges hauyng sufficient vnto the vtmost, may be riche vnto all maner of good workes, 9 As it is written: He hath sparsed abrode, and hath geuen to the poore, his ryghteousnesse remayneth for euer. 10 He that ministreth seede vnto ye sower, ministreth bread also for foode, and multiplieth your seede, and encreaseth the fruites of your ryghteousnesse: 11 That in all thynges ye may be made riche into all singlenesse, which causeth through vs, that thankes are geuen vnto God. 12 For the administration of this seruice, not only supplieth ye neede of the saintes: but also is aboundaunt by the thankes geuyng of many vnto God, 13 Which by the experiment of this ministration, prayse God for the obedience of your consentyng to the Gospell of Christe, and for your singlenesse in distributyng to them, and to all men: 14 And by their prayers for you, which long after you, for the aboundaunt grace of God in you.
• Phil 4:17 : 17 Not that I desire a gyft, but I desire fruite aboundyng to your accompt.
• Jas 2:13 : 13 For he shall haue iudgement without mercie, that sheweth no mercie: And mercie reioyceth agaynst iudgement.
• Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Go to nowe ye riche men, weepe and howle on your wretchednesse that shall come vpon you. 2 Your riches is corrupt, your garmentes are motheaten: 3 Your golde and siluer is cankred, and the rust of them shalbe a witnesse agaynst you, and shall eate your fleshe as it were fyre. Ye haue heaped treasure together in your last dayes. 4 Beholde, the hire of labourers, which haue reaped downe your fieldes, which hire is of you kept backe by fraude, cryeth: and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lorde Sabaoth. 5 Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth, and ben wanton: Ye haue nourisshed your heartes, as in a day of slaughter.
• Matt 6:14-15 : 14 For, yf ye forgeue men theyr trespasses, your heauenly father shall also forgeue you. 15 But, yf ye forgeue not men theyr trespasses: no more shall your father, forgeue you your trespasses.
• Isa 57:1 : 1 The ryghteous perisheth, and no man regardeth it in his heart: good godly people are taken away, & no man considereth it, namely, that the righteous is conueyed away from the wicked.
• Isa 58:7-9 : 7 To deale thy bread to the hungrie, and to bring the poore wandering home into thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou couer hym, and hide not thy selfe from thy neighbour, and despise not thyne owne fleshe? 8 Then shall thy light breake foorth as the morning, and thy health florishe right shortly: righteousnesse shall go before thee, and the glory of the Lorde shall embrace thee. 9 Then if thou callest, the Lorde shall aunswere thee, if thou cryest, he shall say, here I am: yea if thou layest away from thee thy burthens, and holdest thy fingers, and ceassest from vngracious talking: 10 If thou hast compassion vpon the hungrie, and refreshest the troubled soule: then shall thy light spring out in the darknesse, and thy darknesse shalbe as the noone day. 11 The Lorde shall euer be thy guyde, and satisfie the desire of thyne heart in the tyme of drought, and fill thy bones with mary: Thou shalt be like a freshe watred garden, and like the fountaine of water that neuer leaueth running. 12 Then the places that haue euer ben waste, shalbe builded of thee, there shalt thou lay a foundation for many kinredes: Thou shalt be called the maker vp of the breache, and the buylder agayne of the way to dwell in.
• Dan 4:27 : 27 Wherfore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable vnto thee, and breake of thy sinnes by righteousnesse, and thyne iniquities by mercie towarde the poore: lo, let there be a healing of thyne errour.
• Job 20:19-23 : 19 And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not builded them. 20 Because he could not perceaue when his belly was well, through his greedie desire he shall not escape. 21 There shall none of his meate be left, therefore shall no man loke for his goodes. 22 When he had plenteousnesse of euery thing, yet was he poore, though he was helped on euery side. 23 And it shall come to passe, that wherewith he purposed to fill his belly, God shall powre the furie of his wrath theron, and shall cause his indignation to raigne vpon him, and vpon his meate.
• Ps 41:1-4 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid. Blessed is he that considereth ye poore: God wyll delyuer hym in the tyme of trouble. 2 God wyll preserue hym & kepe him aliue: he shalbe blessed vpon the earth, and thou O God wylt not deliuer him into the wyll of his enemies. 3 God wyll comfort hym when he lyeth sicke vpon his bed: thou O God wylt turne vpside downe all his bed in his sicknesse. 4 I sayde, O God be mercifull vnto me: heale my soule, for I haue sinned agaynst thee.
• Ps 112:4-9 : 4 There ariseth vp light in the darknes: vnto them that deale vprightly he is merciful, and louing, and righteous. 5 A good man is mercyfull and lendeth: he wyll guyde his wordes with discretion. 6 For he shalbe neuer moued: and the righteous shall be had in an euerlasting remembraunce. 7 He wyll not be afraide of any euyll tidinges: his heart is setled, he beleueth in God. 8 His heart is strengthened, he will not feare: vntyll he seeth a mischiefe to fall vpon his enemies. 9 He hath distributed abrode, he hath geuen to the poore: his righteousnes remayneth for euer, his horne shalbe exalted with glory.
• Prov 15:27 : 27 The greedy couetous man rooteth vp his owne house: but who so hateth rewardes shall lyue.
• Eccl 4:8 : 8 There is one man, no mo but himselfe alone, hauing neither childe nor brother, yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches: yet saith he not for whom do I take such trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume away my life? This is also a vayne and miserable thyng.
• Isa 32:7-8 : 7 The weapons of the churlishe are euyll, he deuiseth noysome deuises, that he may beguyle the poore with deceiptfull wordes, yea euen there as he should geue sentence with the poore. 8 But the liberall person imagineth honest thynges, and commeth vp for liberalitie vnto promotion.