Verse 12

Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 14:21 : 21 Whoso is despising his neighbour sinneth, Whoso is favouring the humble, O his happiness.
• Luke 16:14 : 14 And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,
• Luke 18:9 : 9 And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:
• John 7:48-52 : 48 did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees? 49 but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.' 50 Nicodemus saith unto them -- he who came by night unto him -- being one of them, 51 `Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?' 52 They answered and said to him, `Art thou also out of Galilee? search and see, that a prophet out of Galilee hath not risen;'
• 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 who being reviled -- was not reviling again, suffering -- was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,
• Judg 9:27-29 : 27 and go out into the field, and gather their vineyards, and tread, and make praises, and go into the house of their god, and eat and drink, and revile Abimelech. 28 And Gaal son of Ebed saith, `Who `is' Abimelech, and who `is' Shechem, that we serve him? is `he' not son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his commander? Serve ye the men of Hamor father of Shechem, and wherefore do we serve him -- we? 29 and oh that this people were in my hand -- then I turn Abimelech aside;' and he saith to Abimelech, `Increase thy host, and come out.'
• Judg 9:38 : 38 And Zebul saith unto him, `Where `is' now thy mouth, in that thou sayest, Who `is' Abimelech that we serve him? is not this the people against which thou hast kicked? go out, I pray thee now, and fight against it.'
• 1 Sam 10:27 : 27 and the sons of worthlessness have said, `What! this one doth save us!' and they despise him, and have not brought to him a present; and he is as one deaf.
• 2 Kgs 18:36 : 36 And the people have kept silent, and have not answered him a word, for the command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.'
• Neh 4:2-4 : 2 and saith before his brethren and the force of Samaria, yea, he saith, `What `are' the weak Jews doing? are they left to themselves? do they sacrifice? do they complete in a day? do they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish? -- and they burnt!' 3 And Tobiah the Ammonite `is' by him and saith, `Also, that which they are building -- if a fox doth go up, then it hath broken down their stone wall.' 4 Hear, O our God, for we have been despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them for a spoil in a land of captivity;
• Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt, 4 Greatly hath our soul been filled With the scorning of the easy ones, With the contempt of the arrogant!
• Prov 10:19 : 19 In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips `is' wise.