The merciful man.— Rather, one who shows love. (See above on Proverbs 3:3.) Our good and evil deeds return to us in bless…

The merciful man does good to his own soul
Or "to himself": a man of mercy or grace, a liberal bountiful man, he com…

A cruel, perverse, ill-natured man is vexatious to those who are, and should be, to him as his own flesh, and punishes himself.