Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Ver. 14. Who rejoice to do evil.] It is their meat, drink, sport; Proverbs 4:27 ; Pro 10:23 they cannot be merry unless the devil be their play fellow. This is reckoned as an aggravation of Jerusalem's sin: "When thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest." Jer 11:15 But better is the sorrow of him that suffereth evil than the jollity of him that doth evil, saith Augustine. a
a Melior est tristitia iniqua patientis quam laetitia iniqua facientis.