Proverbs 29:27
Good News Translation
The righteous hate the wicked, and the wicked hate the righteous.

New Revised Standard Version
The unjust are an abomination to the righteous, but the upright are an abomination to the wicked.

Contemporary English Version
Good people and criminals can't stand each other.

New American Bible
An abomination to the just, the evildoer; an abomination to the wicked, one whose way is straight.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The just abhor a wicked man: and the wicked loathe them that are in the right way. The son that keepeth the word, shall be free from destruction.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The just abhor a wicked man: and the wicked loathe them that are in the right way. The son that keepeth the word, shall be free from destruction.

Proverbs 24:9 The thought of a fool is sin: and the detractor is the abomination of men.

Psalm 119:115 Depart from me, ye malignant: and I will search the commandments of my God.

Psalm 139:21 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away because of thy enemies?

Zechariah 11:8 And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

John 7:7 The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil,

John 15:17-19,23 These things I command you, that you love one another. . . .

1 John 3:13 Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you.

Context
The Stiff-Necked will Be Destroyed
26Many seek the face of the prince: but the judgment of every one cometh forth from the Lord. 27The just abhor a wicked man: and the wicked loathe them that are in the right way. The son that keepeth the word, shall be free from destruction.
Cross References
Matthew 10:22
And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he that shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved.

Matthew 24:9
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall put you to death: and you shall be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

John 15:18
If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you.

John 17:14
I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

1 John 3:13
Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you.

Psalm 6:8
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity: for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

Psalm 69:4
They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.

Psalm 139:21
Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away because of thy enemies?

Psalm 139:22
I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.

Proverbs 12:8
Better is the poor man that provideth for himself, than he that is glorious and wanteth bread.

Proverbs 29:10
Bloodthirsty men hate the upright: but just men seek his soul.

Proverbs 30:1
The words of Gatherer the son of Vomiter. The vision which the man spoke, with whom God is, and who being strengthened by God, abiding with him, said:

Proverbs 29:26
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