They asked this question in church today, but they didn't answer it. I was wondering what the answer was, so i decided to ask you guys. What character trait is worse to posses towards a person, Hatred or Malice?
I would have said both of them are one and the same, but they are not. You can keep malice with someone and not hate the person. At the same time you can hate a person but not keep malice with the person. Personally, i would say malice is worse, for a very weird reason....because of Romans 9:13 which says,
"...‘Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.’"
I feel if God could hate...then, maybe it would be a better quality to have than malice. Yea, i know it's a weird way of looking at the question, but that's what i think sha.

While both qualities are quite terrible, but in general, which would you say is the worse to posses towards a person and why?

Both are wrong because they both lead to hell. Avoid both

Neither is better than the other but hatred can be due to ignorance while malice is an intentional decision to continue hating.