Which imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they gathered together [for] war.
Ver. 2. Which imagine mischief in their heart] Where the devil worketh night and day as a mintman; as a smith in his forge; or an artificer in his shop. A godly man is said to have right thoughts, Proverbs 12:5, and that his desires are only good, Proverbs 11:23. An evil man is called a man of wicked devices, Proverbs 12:2; Proverbs 14:17, being ingeniose nequam, wittily wicked, as it was once said of Gaius Curio, the Roman lawyer.
They are gathered together for war] Heb. they gather wars, as serpents gather poison to vomit out at others. Coacervant praelia, q.d. sunt tanquam tubae belli.