King James Version
Proverbs 6:14 in the King James Version says “Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord . soweth: Heb. casteth forth” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord . soweth: Heb. casteth forth”
Proverbs 6:14 · KJV
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord . soweth: Heb. casteth forth
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: unto: Heb. of his soul
KJV Study — Public Domain
“is in his heart”
H3820the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything
“he deviseth”
H2790to scratch, i.e., (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
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