Proverbs 24:2

For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
heart	לִבָּ֑ם li.Bam	H3820	the heart · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
studieth	יֶהְגֶּ֣ה yeh.Geh	H1897	to murmur (in pleasure or anger) · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
destruction	שֹׁ֭ד shod	H7701	violence · noun, common masculine singular absolute
lips	שִׂפְתֵיהֶ֥ם sif.tei.Hem	H8193	the lip (as a natural boundary) · noun, common feminine dual construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
talk	תְּדַבֵּֽרְנָה te.da.Be.re.nah	H1696	perhaps properly · verb, piel imperfect, 3rd person feminine plural
mischief	וְ֝עָמָ֗ל ve.'a.Mal	H5999	toil · conjunction + noun, common both genders singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Psalms 7:14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
Psalms 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Psalms 28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Isaiah 59:4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity…
1 Samuel 23:9 And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Esther 3:6-7 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all t…
Psalms 36:4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

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Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 24:2

studieth--meditateth. talk . . . mischief--Their expressed purposes are to do evil.

John Gill on Proverbs 24:2

For their heart studieth destruction,.... To others; to good men, that separate from them, and reprove them, or are in their way; or any ways hinder them in the prosecution of their wicked designs; as Haman's heart studied the destruction of the Jews: or their hearts study to draw men into their destructive methods of living, and therefore should be shunned and avoided. Moreover, their hearts study destruction to themselves; they study what they shall eat and drink, which they pursue to intemperance; and how they shall compass their lewd designs, and which issue in their ruin; destruction and misery are in all the ways they devise and walk in; and their lips talk of mischief; which they stu…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 24:1-2

After this divergence (in Pro 23:29-35) from the usual form of the proverb, there is now a return to the tetrastich: 1 Envy not evil men, And desire not to have intercourse with them. 2 For their heart thinketh of violence, And their lips speak mischief. The warning, not to envy the godless, is also found at Pro 3:31; Pro 23:17; Pro 24:19, but is differently constructed in each of these passages. Regarding תּתאו with Pathach, vid., at Pro 23:3. אנשׁי רעה (cf. רע, Pro 28:5) are the wicked, i.e., such as cleave to evil, and to whom evil clings. The warning is grounded in this, that whoever have intercourse with such men, make themselves partners in greater sins and evil: for their heart broode…

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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Proverbs 24:1-2

Saying 19: See 1:8-19.

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Dictionary and topics

Heart, Character Of The Unrenewed · Studies destruction — Studies destruction
Speaking · EVIL — EVIL
Young Men · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).