Proverbs 24:8
Anyone who plans to do evil will be seen as a troublemaker.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
In Context
9Plans thought up by stupid people are sinful. Everyone hates those who are scornful of others.
Cross References
Psalms 21:11Though they plot evil against you, their malicious schemes will not succeed.
Proverbs 6:18a mind that plots evil schemes, feet that hurriedly run to do wrong,
Proverbs 24:2for they think up cruel plans and discuss how to cause trouble.
Isaiah 10:7But this isn't what is behind the thinking of the king of Assyria. This isn't the plan he has in mind. What he wants to do is to destroy and eliminate many nations.
Ezekiel 38:10This is what the Lord God says: On that day you will start thinking about things in your mind, and you will come up with an evil plan.
Romans 1:30They're back-stabbers and God-haters. They're arrogant, proud, and boastful. They devise new ways of sinning. They rebel against their parents.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:8-10
The Malicious and the Scornful. 7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. 8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. 9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men. 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… Read the whole commentary →