New Revised Standard Version
The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

Contemporary English Version
Good people are kind to their animals, but a mean person is cruel.

New American Bible
The just take care of their livestock, but the compassion of the wicked is cruel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that pursueth idleness is very foolish.

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that pursueth idleness is very foolish.

righteous

Genesis 33:13,14 And Jacob said: My lord, thou knowest that I have with me tender children, and sheep, and kine with young: which if I should cause to be overdriven, in one day all the flocks will die. . . .

Numbers 22:28-32 And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said: What have I done to thee? Why strikest thou me, lo, now this third time? . . .

Deuteronomy 25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the floor.

John 4:11 The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou living water?

but

Genesis 37:26-28 And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood? . . .

Judges 1:7 And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings, having their fingers and toes cut off, gathered up the leavings of the meat under my table: as I have done, so hath God requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

1 Samuel 11:2 And Naas, the Ammonite, answered them: On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may pluck out all your right eyes, and make you a reproach in all Israel.

John 19:31,32 Then the Jews (because it was the parasceve), that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day (for that was a great sabbath day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken: and that they might be taken away. . . .

James 2:13-16 For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment. . . .

tender mercies

1 John 3:17 He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him?