8He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
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For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
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…
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