“ He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. ”
Proverbs 24:7 a. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made of an obviously corrupt stanza. Proverbs 24:9 . though...
mischievous person . a genius at plots. Hebrew. zimmah . plots. Not the same word as in Proverbs 24:2 and Proverbs 24:16 .
He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. He that deviseth to do evil (inventing new oaths, frauds, incentives to sin, Romans 1:30 ) shall be called a mischievous pe...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'
CHAPTER 25 FORGIVING "Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to...
Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest endeavor t...
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding i...
He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person ] To do evil is natural to men, all are prone to it; being conceived and born in sin, and, from the womb, more or less commit it: but...
He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. Ver. 8. Shall be called a mischievous person. ] Heb., A master of sinful musings, an artist at any evil. Josephus saith of Antipat...
He that deviseth, &c., shall be called mischievous Hebrew, בעל מזמות, a master of crafts or mischiefs. Though he cover his wicked devices with fair pretences, and wishes to be better esteemed...
7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. 8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. 9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the...
Heb. a master of mischief . The sense is, Though he cover his wicked devices with fair pretences, and would be better esteemed, yet he shall be noted and branded with that infamy which is due to him...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 24:7 . Wisdom is too high, etc. Delitzsch here reads, Wisdom seems to the fool to be an ornamental commodity , and thinks “the comparison lies in the rarity, costliness...
Proverbs 24:1 . Be not envious against evil men. Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1 ; Psalms 73 ; Proverbs 17:1 . Why should we envy the wicked? We are all going to lie in the common dust; t...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. Be not thou envious against evil men (see on Proverbs 23:17 , where a similar warning is given, and comp...
v. 8. He that deviseth to do evil, with whom mischief and wrong is self-evident, who is the master of wickedness, shall be called a mischievous person, his evil reputation will soon be well estab...
1 Kings 2:44 ; Ezekiel 38:10 ; Ezekiel 38:11 ; Isaiah 10:7-13 ; Isaiah 32:7 ; Nahum 1:11 ; Proverbs 14:22 ; Proverbs 24:2 ; Proverbs 24:9 ; Proverbs 6:14 ; Proverbs 6:18 ; Psalms 21:11 ;...
Shall be called — Though he cover his wicked devices with fair pretences, he shall be branded with that infamy which is due to him.