Mischief is here said to attend, 1. Politic, designing, self-disguising
sinners: He that winks with the eye, as if he took no notice of you,
when at the same time he is watching an opportunity to do you an ill
turn, that makes signs to his accomplices when to come into assist him
in executing his wicked projects, which are all carried on by trick and
artifice, causes sorrow both to others and to himself. Ingenuity will
be no excuse for iniquity, but the sinner must either repent or do
worse, either rue it or be ruined by it. 2. Public, silly,
self-exposing sinners: A prating fool, whose sins go before unto
judgment, shall fall, as was said before, v. 8. But his case is less
dangerous of the two, and, though he destroys himself, he does not
create so much sorrow to others as he that winks with his eyes. The dog
that bites is not always the dog that barks.