Proverbs 24:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.

Proverbs 24:8 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 21:11
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
Proverbs 14:22
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
Proverbs 6:14
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
Proverbs 6:18
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Romans 1:30
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-9)

Here is the description, 1. Of a weak man: Wisdom is too high for him; he thinks it so, and therefore, despairing to attain it, he will take no pains in the pursuit of it, but sit down content without it. And really it is so; he has not capacity for it, and therefore the advantages he has for getting it are all in vain to him. It is no easy thing to get wisdom; those that have natural parts good e…

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

(vv. 8)

8. So called even if he fails to do evil.