Proverbs 2:14
New International Version
who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,

New Living Translation
They take pleasure in doing wrong, and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil.

English Standard Version
who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,

Berean Standard Bible
from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

King James Bible
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

New King James Version
Who rejoice in doing evil, And delight in the perversity of the wicked;

New American Standard Bible
Who delight in doing evil And rejoice in the perversity of evil;

NASB 1995
Who delight in doing evil And rejoice in the perversity of evil;

NASB 1977
Who delight in doing evil, And rejoice in the perversity of evil;

Legacy Standard Bible
Who are glad to do evil And they rejoice in the perversity of evil;

Amplified Bible
Who find joy in doing evil And delight in the perversity of evil,

Christian Standard Bible
from those who enjoy doing evil and celebrate perversion,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
from those who enjoy doing evil and celebrate perversion,

American Standard Version
Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they rejoice to do evil and they rejoice in the lifestyle of the evil.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness;

Contemporary English Version
Most of all they enjoy being mean and deceitful.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things:

English Revised Version
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of evil;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
from those who enjoy doing evil, from those who find joy in the deviousness of evil.

Good News Translation
those who find pleasure in doing wrong and who enjoy senseless evil,

International Standard Version
who delight in doing evil, and rejoice in the perverseness of evil;

JPS Tanakh 1917
Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the frowardness of evil;

Literal Standard Version
Who are rejoicing to do evil, | They delight in [the] contrariness of the wicked,

Majority Standard Bible
from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

New American Bible
Who delight in doing evil and celebrate perversity;

NET Bible
who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;

New Revised Standard Version
who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;

New Heart English Bible
who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

Webster's Bible Translation
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

World English Bible
who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,

Young's Literal Translation
Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,

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Context
The Benefits of Wisdom
13from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness, 14from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil, 15whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.…

Cross References
Proverbs 10:23
The fool delights in shameful conduct, but a man of understanding has wisdom.

Proverbs 21:10
The soul of the wicked man craves evil; his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

Jeremiah 11:15
What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom, so that you can rejoice?


Treasury of Scripture

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

rejoice

Proverbs 10:23
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

Jeremiah 11:15
What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

Habakkuk 1:15
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

and

Hosea 7:3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Luke 22:4,5
And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them…

Romans 1:32
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

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Proverbs 2
1. wisdom promises godliness to her children
10. and safety from evil company
20. and direction in good ways














(14) Delight in the frowardness of the wicked.--This positive taking pleasure in evil is mentioned by St. Paul (Romans 1:32) as the last stage of degradation.

Verse 14. - Who rejoice to do evil. Another element is here brought forward, and the description increases in intensity. The wicked not only rejoice to do evil themselves, but they exult when they hear of evil in others (cf. Romans 1:32). Such may be the interpretation, though the latter part, of the verse is capable of a different and more general rendering as signifying exultation in evil generally, whether it appears in themselves or others. The expression rendered in the Authorized Version, in the frowardness of the wicked, is in the original (בְּתַחְפֻכות רַע b'thah'pucoth ra), in the perverseness of evil, or in evil perverseness, where the combination of the two nouns serves to give force to the main idea, which is that of perverseness. This rendering is adopted in the LXX., ἐπὶ διαστροφῇ κακῇ, "in evil distortion;" in the Vulgate, in pessimis rebus; in the Targum, Syriac, and Arabic, in conversatione mala, "in a bad course of conduct;" and in the Targum, in malitiae perversione, "in the perversion of wickedness." It is not perverseness in its simple and common form that these men exult in. but in its worst and most vicious form (for a similar construction, see Proverbs 6:24; Proverbs 15:26; and Proverbs 28:5). How widely different is the conduct of charity, which "rejoiceth not in iniquity" (1 Corinthians 13:6)!

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Hebrew
from those who enjoy
הַ֭שְּׂמֵחִים (haś·śə·mê·ḥîm)
Article | Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 8056: Glad, joyful, merry

doing
לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת (la·‘ă·śō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 6213: To do, make

evil
רָ֑ע (rā‘)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

and rejoice
יָ֝גִ֗ילוּ (yā·ḡî·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1523: To spin round, rejoice, fear

in the twistedness
בְּֽתַהְפֻּכ֥וֹת (bə·ṯah·pu·ḵō·wṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 8419: Perversity, perverse thing

of evil,
רָֽע׃ (rā‘)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil


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