💡WEB · Proverbs 2:14

What does Proverbs 2:14 mean?

"who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;"

— Proverbs 2:14 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

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to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

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who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

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who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

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who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

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To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

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who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

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