Proverbs 24:2
For their heart imagineth to do hurt, and their lippes talke mischiefe.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
In Context
1Be not thou enuious to folow wicked men, and desire not to be among them:
3Thorowe wysdome is an house buylded, & with vnderstanding is it set vp.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:10My sonne, if sinners doe intise thee, consent thou not.
Proverbs 24:8He that imagineth mischiefe, maye well be called an vngratious person.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:2-3
The Excellence of Wisdom. 1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. 2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. Here, 1. The caution given is much the same with that which we had before ( ch. xxiii. 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 merry and ever so secure. "Let not such a thought ever come into thy mind, O that I could shake off the… Read the whole commentary →