Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
Cross References
Romans 12:9Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
Psalm 52:3You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah
Psalm 140:2who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.
Proverbs 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
Proverbs 14:22Do not those who contrive evil go astray? But those who plan goodness find loving devotion and faithfulness.
Isaiah 65:2All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
Ezekiel 38:10This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
Micah 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning's light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
Treasury of Scripture
He devises mischief on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he abhors not evil.
deviseth
Psalm 38:12
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
1 Samuel 19:11
Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
Esther 5:14
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
mischief.
Proverbs 24:23
These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
Isaiah 65:2
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
Jeremiah 6:16
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
abhorreth
Psalm 97:10
Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Job 15:16
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Amos 5:15
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
