Proverbs 24:2
for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
In Context
1Do not envy wicked men or desire their company;
3By wisdom a house is built and by understanding it is established;
Cross References
Esther 3:6And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
Psalms 7:14Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
Psalms 28:3Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.
Psalms 64:4ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.
Proverbs 1:10My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.
Proverbs 24:8He who plots evil will be called a schemer.
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 →