Spreuken 29:10

Staten Vertaling

Bloedgierige lieden haten den vrome; maar de oprechten zoeken zijn ziel.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
De bloedgierigen haten den vrome, maar de rechtvaardigen zoeken zijne ziel.

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Bloedmenschen haten den deugdzame, en de bozen staan hem naar het leven.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The bloodthirsty: Heb. Men of bloods, Genesis 4:5-8, 1 Samuel 20:31-33, 1 Samuel 22:11-23, 1 Kings 21:20, 1 Kings 22:8, 2 Chronicles 18:7, Mark 6:18, Mark 6:19, Mark 6:24-27, John 15:18, John 15:19, 1 John 3:12, 1 John 3:13

but: 1 Samuel 15:11, Jeremiah 13:15-17, Jeremiah 18:20, Jeremiah 40:14-16, Luke 23:34, John 5:34, Acts 7:60, Romans 10:1

Reciprocal: Psalms 37:14 - slay Matthew 14:8 - Give Matthew 14:11 - and given

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The bloodthirsty hate the upright,.... Cain did Abel; and as the wicked world hate all good men, and persecute them, even unto death;

but the just must seek his soul; either the soul of the bloodthirsty, and that either the good of their souls; seek their spiritual welfare, and pray for it, even though they are so cruel and inhuman: or just magistrates will seek after such persons, to punish them for shedding the blood of the upright. Or else the meaning is, that just persons seek the soul of the upright, and make inquisition for the blood of such, to punish for it; which comes to the same sense, as Aben Ezra observes: or rather, such seek to defend and preserve the soul or life of upright men from those that hate and persecute them. Jarchi illustrates it by 1 Samuel 22:23; the Targum is,

"men that shed blood hate integrity; but the upright seek it.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Seek his soul - i. e., “Care for, watch over, his life” (compare Psalms 142:4).