Proverbs 24:2 Parallel Translations
NASB: For their minds devise violence, And their lips talk of trouble. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: because their minds plot violence, and their lips talk trouble.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
ASV: For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.
BBE: For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.
DBY: for their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
ERV: For their heart studieth oppression, and their lips talk of mischief.
JPS: For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
WBS: For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
WEB: for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.
YLT: For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.
Proverbs 24:2 Cross References
XREF:Job 15:35 "They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity, And their mind prepares deception."

Psalm 10:7 His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression; Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

Psalm 38:12 Those who seek my life lay snares for me; And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction, And they devise treachery all day long.

Isaiah 30:12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Since you have rejected this word And have put your trust in oppression and guile, and have relied on them,

Jeremiah 22:17 "But your eyes and your heart Are intent only upon your own dishonest gain, And on shedding innocent blood And on practicing oppression and extortion." (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
WES: 24:2 Destruction - How they may oppress and destroy others.
MHC: 24:1,2 Envy not sinners. And let not a desire ever come into thy mind, Oh that I could shake off restraints! 3-6. Piety and prudence in outward affairs, both go together to complete a wise man. By knowledge the soul is filled with the graces and comforts of the spirit, those precious and pleasant riches. The spirit is strengthened for the spiritual work and the spiritual warfare, by true wisdom. 7-9. A weak man thinks wisdom is too high for him, therefore he will take no pains for it. It is bad to do evil, but worse to devise it. Even the first risings of sin in the heart are sin, and must be repented of. Those that strive to make others hateful, make themselves so. 10. Under troubles we are apt to despair of relief. But be of good courage, and God shall strengthen thy heart. 11,12. If a man know that his neighbour is in danger by any unjust proceeding, he is bound to do all in his power to deliver him. And what is it to suffer immortal souls to perish, when our persuasions and example may be the means of preventing it? 13,14. We are quickened to the study of wisdom by considering both the pleasure and the profit of it. All men relish things that are sweet to the palate; but many have no relish for the things that are sweet to the purified soul, and that make us wise unto salvation. 15,16. The sincere soul falls as a traveller may do, by stumbling at some stone in his path; but gets up, and goes on his way with more care and speed. This is rather to be understood of falls into affliction, than falls into actual sin.
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