devise: Proverbs 19:22; 2 Chronicles 6:8
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Proverbs 14:22
Proverbs 14:22
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To grasp this principle—there is nothing causeless and unaccountable in life—and to apply it is one of the main principles of wisdom. Let us note some of its applications—
I. TO SOCIAL RELATIONS.…Proverbs 14:22Proverbs 14:22 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleSee here, 1. How miserably mistaken those are that not only do evil,
but devise it: Do they not err? Yes, certainly they do; every one knows
it. They think that by sinning with craft and contrivance, and carrying…Proverbs 14:22Proverbs 14:22 · The Pulpit CommentaryDo they not err that devise evil? or, Will they not go astray? The question is an emphatic mode of asserting the truth. They who meditate and practise evil (Proverbs 3:29; Proverbs 6:14) go astray from the right way—the…