Proverbs 24:2
because they are constantly thinking about acting violently, and whenever they speak [MTY], they talk about ◄causing trouble/hurting someone►.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
In Context
1Do not envy evil people; do not desire to associate with them,
Cross References
Esther 3:6After he found out that Mordecai was a Jew, he decided that it would not be enough to get rid of only Mordecai. He decided to kill all the Jews in all the area that Xerxes ruled.
Psalms 7:14Wicked people tell lies, and they think that they surely will be able to do [MET] the evil things that they are planning to do just as surely as a pregnant woman knows that she is going to give birth to a child [MET].
Psalms 28:3Do not drag me away with wicked people, with those who do wicked deeds, with those who pretend to act peacefully toward others while in their inner beings, they hate them.
Psalms 64:4Without being afraid, they lie about people and slander people who have not done what is wrong, like someone who suddenly jumps up from where he is hiding and shoots arrows at his enemy [MET].
Proverbs 1:10My son, if sinners tempt/entice you to do what is wrong, say “No” to them.
Proverbs 24:8Those who are always planning to do evil things will be called troublemakers.
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 →