Proverbs 2:14

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

Who rejoice to do evil, (and) delight in the frowardness of the wicked - (; ; . end.) Thus, Ahab "sold himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up" (). It is a just judgment of God to give up to their own delusion them "that have pleasure in unrighteousness" (). Delight," exult, leap with joy at hearing of frowardness of other wicked men. So . But the end is death. Their leap for joy, says Cornelius a Lapide, is like that of those bitten with the tarantula in Appulia, who leap, and leaping die. (Contrast , "I delight to do thy will, O my God.") The godly grieve bitterly, like Peter, when they are overtaken in a fault.