2For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
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Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-2)Here, 1. The caution given is much the same with that which we had before (Prov. 23:17), not to envy sinners, not to think them happy, nor to wish ourselves in their condition, though they prosper ever so much in this world, and are ever so marry and ever so secure. “Let not such a thought ever come into thy mind, O that I could shake off the restraints of religion and conscience, and take as grea…
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