Proverbs 24:2
For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lippes speake mischiefe.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
In Context
1Be not thou enuious against euill men, neither desire to be with them.
3Through wisdome is an house builded, and with vnderstanding it is established.
Cross References
Esther 3:6Now he thought it too litle to lay hands onely on Mordecai: and because they had shewed him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Iewes, that were throughout the whole kingdome of Ahashuerosh, euen the people of Mordecai.
Psalms 7:14Beholde, hee shall trauaile with wickednes: for he hath conceiued mischiefe, but he shall bring foorth a lye.
Psalms 28:3Drawe mee not away with the wicked, and with the woorkers of iniquitie: which speake friendly to their neighbours, when malice is in their hearts.
Psalms 64:4To shoote at the vpright in secrete: they shoote at him suddenly, and feare not.
Proverbs 1:10My sonne, if sinners doe intise thee, consent thou not.
Proverbs 24:8Hee that imagineth to doe euill, men shall call him an autour of wickednes.
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 →