17 When you're kind to others, you help yourself; when you're cruel to others, you hurt yourself.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 11:17

Commentary on Proverbs 11:17

(Read Proverbs 11:17)

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