14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
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Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, …
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-19)Solomon here gives us, I. The characters of one that is mischievous to man and dangerous to be dealt with. If the slothful are to be condemned, that do nothing, much more those that do ill, and contrive to do all the ill they can. It is a naughty person that is here spoken of, Heb. A man of Belial ; I think it should have been so translated, because it is a term often used in scripture, and this i…
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