Proverbs 24:8

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Summary

Proverbs 24:8

He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.

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For their minds devise violence,
And their lips talk of trouble.

Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil,
Who

spreads strife.

Will they not go astray who devise evil?
But kindness and truth will be to those who devise good.

The king also said to Shimei, “You know all the evil which you acknowledge in your heart, which you did to my father David; therefore the Lord shall return your evil on your own head.

Though they

intended evil against You

And devised a plot,
They will not succeed.

Yet it does not so intend,
Nor does it plan so in its heart,
But rather it is its purpose to destroy
And to cut off many nations.

As for a rogue, his weapons are evil;
He devises wicked schemes
To destroy the afflicted with slander,

Even though the needy one speaks what is right.

‘Thus says the Lord God, “It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan,

From you has gone forth
One who plotted evil against the Lord,
A

wicked counselor.

slanderers,

haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,