Proverbs 24:2
For their heart meditates [on] destruction, || And their lips speak perverseness.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
In Context
1Do not be envious of evil men, || And do not desire to be with them.
3A house is built by wisdom, || And it establishes itself by understanding.
Cross References
Esther 3:6and it is contemptible in his eyes to put forth a hand on Mordecai by himself, for they have declared to him the people of Mordecai, and Haman seeks to destroy all the Jews who [are] in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus—the people of Mordecai.
Psalms 7:14Behold, he travails [with] iniquity, || And he has conceived perverseness, || And has brought forth falsehood.
Psalms 28:3Do not draw me with the wicked, || And with workers of iniquity, || Speaking peace with their neighbors, || And evil in their heart.
Psalms 64:4To shoot the perfect in secret places, || Suddenly they shoot him, and do not fear.
Proverbs 1:10My son, if sinners entice you, do not be willing.
Proverbs 24:8Whoever is devising to do evil, || They call him a master of wicked thoughts.
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 →