21Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
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See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21)Note, 1. It is the character of a wicked man that he takes pleasure in sin; he has an appetite to the bait, and swallows it greedily, and has no dread of the hook, nor feels from it when he has swallowed it: Folly is joy to him ; the folly of others is so, and his own much more. He sins, not only without regret, but with delight, not only repents not of it, but makes his boast of it. This is a cer…
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