Proverbs 10:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

Proverbs 10:23 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 15:21
Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
Proverbs 2:14
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Proverbs 14:9
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
Proverbs 26:18-19
As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, …
Ecclesiastes 11:9
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.

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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 his…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

23. Sin is the pleasure of the wicked; wisdom that of the good.