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Proverbs 24:8-9

This man makes evil plots. And the people hate him. They hate him because all his ideas are evil. Perhaps he wants to cause trouble. Or perhaps he wants to benefit himself unfairly.

v10 If troubles make you weak, you are never strong.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 24 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED In the final instructions of this chapter we find first a description of the evil men. Their heart studieth destruction; their lips talk mischief. This theme is repea...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERBS 24:7 A. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made of an obviously corrupt stanza. Proverbs 24:9. thought: the wor...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MISCHIEVOUS PERSON. a genius at plots. Hebrew. _zimmah_. plots. Not the same word as in Proverbs 24:2 and Proverbs 24:16....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _shall be called_ Lit. _they_(men) _shall call_him. However secretly he works (comp. Psalms 64:6 [Hebrews 7]), his true character shall be found out, and his reputation shall accord with it....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER 24 TEXT Proverbs 24:1-12 1. Be not thou envious against evil men; Neither desire to be with them: 2. For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief. 3. Through wi...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. HE THAT DEVISETH TO DO EVIL (INVENTING NEW OATHS, FRAUDS, INCENTIVES TO SIN, ) SHALL BE CALLED A MISCHIEVOUS PERSON - Hebrew, 'a m...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מְחַשֵּׁ֥ב לְ הָרֵ֑עַ לֹ֝֗ו בַּֽעַל ־מְזִמֹּ֥ות...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 25 FORGIVING "Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to hi...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest endeavor to...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HE THAT DEVISETH TO DO EVIL SHALL BE CALLED A MISCHIEVOUS PERSON] To do evil is natural to men, all are prone to it; being conceived and born in sin, and, from the womb, more or less commit it: but fo...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. Ver. 8. _Shall be called a mischievous person._] Heb., A master of sinful musings, an artist at any evil. Josephus saith of Antipater...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He that deviseth, &c., shall be called mischievous_ Hebrew, בעל מזמות, _a master of crafts or mischiefs._ Though he cover his wicked devices with fair pretences, and wishes to be better esteemed, he...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    V. 8. HE THAT DEVISETH TO DO EVIL, with whom mischief and wrong is self-evident, who is the master of wickedness, SHALL BE CALLED A MISCHIEVOUS PERSON, his evil reputation will soon be well establishe...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Heb. _a master of mischief_. The sense is, Though he cover his wicked devices with fair pretences, and would be better esteemed, yet he shall be noted and branded with that infamy which is due to him....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 24:8 plots H2803 (H8764) evil H7489 (H8687) called H7121 (H8799) schemer H4209 H1167...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: If wicked people prosper, we should not be inclined to do as they do, nor complain of what God does in His provide...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 24:1. _Be not envious against evil men._ Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73; Proverbs 17:1. Why should we envy the wicked? We are all g

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 24:7. WISDOM IS TOO HIGH, etc. Delitzsch here reads, _Wisdom seems to the fool to be an ornamental commodity_, and thinks “the comparison lies in the rarity, costliness, and...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. BE NOT THOU ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN (see on Proverbs 23:17, where a similar warning is given, and comp....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Again, he continues in twenty-four in putting them together in couplets or in phrases. Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studies destruction, and their...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 2:44; Ezekiel 38:10; Ezekiel 38:11; Isaiah 10:7; Isaiah 32:7

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Shall be called — Though he cover his wicked devices with fair pretences, he shall be branded with that infamy which is due to him....

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