Proverbs 24:8
Whoever is devising to do evil, || They call him a master of wicked thoughts.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
In Context
7Wisdom [is] high for a fool, he does not open his mouth in the gate.
9The thought of folly [is] sin, || And a scorner [is] an abomination to man.
Cross References
Psalms 21:11For they stretched out evil against You, || They devised a wicked scheme, they do not prevail,
Proverbs 6:18A heart devising thoughts of vanity, || Feet hastening to run to evil,
Proverbs 24:2For their heart meditates [on] destruction, || And their lips speak perverseness.
Isaiah 10:7And he does not think [it] so, || And his heart does not reckon [it] so, || For—to destroy [is] in his heart, || And to cut off nations—not a few.
Ezekiel 38:10Thus said Lord YHWH: And it has come to pass in that day, || Things come up on your heart, || And you have thought an evil thought,
Romans 1:30evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to 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 →