James 1:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

A double minded man; either;

1. A hypocrite, who is said to have a double heart, Psalms 12:2. Or rather;

2. He that is of a doubtful mind, wavering, and fluctuating with contrary motions, sometimes of one mind, sometimes of another; sometimes hoping, sometimes desponding. Is unstable; either unconstant, without any fixedness or consistency of spirit, as ready to depart from God as to cleave to him; or unquiet, troubled, full of inward tumults. In all his ways; by a Hebraism, ways, for counsels, purposes, actions, &c.

James 1:8

8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.