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I. THE PORTRAIT OF A BAD MAN.

1. He is perverse in speech. He has no regard for truth or propriety. False, irreverent, impure, audacious.

2. He is artful in his conduct. "Winketh with his eyes," etc. He expresses his base spirit in crafty and clandestine and cunning methods. He is anything but straightforward and transparent.

3. Mischievous in purpose. "Deviseth mischief." Malevolence is his inspiration. He rejoiceth in evil.

II. THE DOOM OF A BAD MAN. "Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly." This doom is —

1. Certain. The moral laws of the universe and the Word of God guarantee the punishment of sin.

2. Sudden. "Suddenly shall he be broken." The suddenness does not arise from want of warning, but from the neglect of warning.

3. Irremediable. "Without remedy." When once his doom is fixed, there is no alteration. "As the tree falls, so it must lie."

(D. Thomas, D. D.)

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KJV: A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

WEB: A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;