30He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
Linguistic Insight
Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.
Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. …
For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
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…
My Notes
Notes are saved on this device.