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Proverbs 21:4

Proverbs 21:4

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible · Matthew Henry (1662–1714) · Public Domain

This may be taken as showing us, 1. The marks of a wicked man. He that

has a high look and a proud heart, that carries himself insolently and

scornfully towards both God and man, and that is always ploughing and

plotting, designing and devising some mischief or other, is indeed a

wicked man. The light of the wicked is sin. Sin is the pride, the

ambition, the glory and joy, and the business of wicked men. 2. The

miseries of wicked man. His raised expectations, his high designs, and

most elaborate contrivances and projects, are sin to him; he contracts

guilt in them and so prepares trouble for himself. The very business of

all wicked men, as well as their pleasure, is nothing but sin; so

Bishop Patrick. They do all to serve their lusts, and have no regard to

the glory of God in it, and therefore their ploughing is sin, and no

marvel when their sacrificing is so, ch. xv. 8.

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