Proverbs 24:9
It is sinful to plan to do foolish things, and people hate those who make fun of everything that is good.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
In Context
8Those who are always planning to do evil things will be called troublemakers.
10If you act as though you are helpless when you have troubles, you are truly very weak.
Cross References
Genesis 8:21When Yahweh smelled the pleasant odor, he was pleased with the sacrifice. Then he said to himself, “I will never again devastate everything on the earth because of the sinful things people do. Even though everything that people think is evil from the time they are young, I will not destroy all the living creatures again, as I did this time.
Proverbs 22:10If you get rid of those who make fun of everything that is good, there will no more arguing or quarreling or insulting other people.
Proverbs 24:8Those who are always planning to do evil things will be called troublemakers.
Isaiah 55:7Wicked people should abandon their wicked behavior, and evil people should stop thinking what is evil. They should turn to me, and if they do that, I will act mercifully toward them; they should turn to me, their God, because I will fully pardon them for all the wicked things that they have done.
Matthew 5:28But what I say to you is this: If a man only looks at a woman desiring to have sex with her, God considers that his doing that [MET] is sin.
Matthew 15:19It is people’s innermost beings that cause them to think things that are evil, to murder people, to commit adultery, to commit other sexual sins, to steal things, to testify falsely, and to speak evil about others.
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 →