Ungodly men bestow more pains to do mischief than would be needful to do good. The whisperer separates friends: what a hateful, but how common a character!
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Proverbs 16:27-28
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:27-28
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commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 16:1-33EXPOSITIONJoseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Proverbs 16:27-28There are those that are not only vicious themselves, but spiteful and mischievous to others, and they are the worst of men; two sorts of such are here described:—1. Such as envy a man the honour of his good name, and d…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 16:27-30Penal judgments on guilt I. GODLESS STRIVINGS. Life is full of success and failure. There are successes which cost the soul, and failures in which is contained the reaping of life eternal. The activity of the worthless…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 16:27This and the three following verses are concerned with the case of the evil man. An ungodly man—a man of Belial—diggeth up evil. A man of Belial (Proverbs 6:12) is a worthless, wicked person, what the French call a vaur…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 16:28(See homily on Proverbs 17:9.)—C.Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 16:28A froward man soweth strife (Proverbs 6:14, Proverbs 6:19). The verb means, literally, "sends forth," which may signify "scatters as seed" or "hurls as a missile weapon." The character intended is the perverse man, who…Joseph S. Exell and contributors