23It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, …
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23)Here is, 1. Sin exceedingly sinful: It is as laughter to a fool to do mischief ; it is as natural to him, and as pleasant, as it is to a man to laugh. Wickedness is his Isaac (that is the word here); it is his delight, his darling, and that in which he pleases himself. He makes a laughing matter of sin. When he is warned not to sin, from the consideration of the law of God and the revelation of hi…
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