Pro 24:9 | KingComments | STEP | “One who plans to do evil” ( ) is doing the work of the devil, who cannot do anything but plan to do evil. The devil can rightly be called “a schemer”. He who is not a child of God is a child of the devil ( ). All children of the devil have his nature. He inspires them to plan to do evil; they are “inventors of evil” ( ). Not everyone does this to the same degree, but the principle is in the thinking of all the children of the devil. In particular, this refers to the cold, calculating person who is active in planning to do evil. Not only the committing of folly is sin, but even all “the devising of folly is sin” ( ). The folly of a scoffer is indeed the height of folly. This type of person tramples on all morality. Even people who want nothing to do with God, but who still maintain a certain morality, get disgusted with him at some point. A scoffer is one who not only rejects what he should believe, but laughs at and ridicules and despises what he should believe. He does the same to those who believe.

‏ Proverbs 24:9

Planning to Do Evil and the Devising of Folly

“One who plans to do evil” (Pro 24:8) is doing the work of the devil, who cannot do anything but plan to do evil. The devil can rightly be called “a schemer”. He who is not a child of God is a child of the devil (1Jn 3:10). All children of the devil have his nature. He inspires them to plan to do evil; they are “inventors of evil” (Rom 1:30). Not everyone does this to the same degree, but the principle is in the thinking of all the children of the devil. In particular, this refers to the cold, calculating person who is active in planning to do evil.

Not only the committing of folly is sin, but even all “the devising of folly is sin” (Pro 24:9). The folly of a scoffer is indeed the height of folly. This type of person tramples on all morality. Even people who want nothing to do with God, but who still maintain a certain morality, get disgusted with him at some point. A scoffer is one who not only rejects what he should believe, but laughs at and ridicules and despises what he should believe. He does the same to those who believe.