29A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; …
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. …
Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-30)Here is another sort of evil men described to us, that we may neither do like them, nor have any thing to do with them. 1. Such as (like Satan) do all the mischief they can by force and violence, as roaring lions, and not only by fraud and insinuation, as subtle serpents: They are violent men , that do all by rapine and oppression, that shut their eyes , meditating with the closest intention and a…
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