Proverbs 29:10 (BSB)

Men of bloodshed hate a blameless man, but the upright care for his life.

From Proverbs 29. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 29:10

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 29:10: Note, 1. Bad men hate their best friends: The blood-thirsty, all the seed of the old serpent, who was a murderer from the beginning, all that inherit his enmity against the seed of the woman, hate the upright; they seek the ruin of good men because they condemn the wicked world and witness against it. Christ told his disciples that they should be hated of all men.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 29:10: 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 29:10: bloodthirsty--(Compare Margin), murderers (Psa 5:6; Psa 26:9). hate, &c.-- (Pro 1:11; Gen 3:4). seek . . . soul--that is, to preserve it.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 29:10: Pro 29:10 We now group together Pro 29:10-14. Of these, Pro 29:10 and Pro 29:11 are alike in respect of the tense used; Pro 29:12-14 have in common the pronoun pointing back to the first member. 10 Men of blood hate the guiltless And the upright; they attempt the life of such The nearest lying translation of the second line would certainly be: the upright...