Proverbs 2:14 {15}
Good News Translation
those who find pleasure in doing wrong and who enjoy senseless evil,

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

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.

rejoice

Proverbs 10:23 That which the wicked feareth, shall come upon him: to the just their desire shall be given.

Jeremiah 11:15 What is the meaning that my beloved hath wrought much wickedness in my house? shall the holy flesh take away from thee thy crimes, in which thou hast boasted?

Habakkuk 1:15 He lifted up all them with his hook, he drew them in his drag, and gathered them into his net: for this he will be glad and rejoice.

Zephaniah 3:11 In that day thou shalt not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me for then I will take away out of the midst of thee thy proud boasters, and thou shalt no more be lifted up because of my holy mountain.

1 Corinthians 13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth:

and

Hosea 7:3 They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.

Luke 22:4,5 And he went and discoursed with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might betray him to them. . . .

Romans 1:32 Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.

Context
The Benefits of Wisdom
13Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in the most wicked things: 14Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.15That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words;…
Cross References
Proverbs 10:23
That which the wicked feareth, shall come upon him: to the just their desire shall be given.

Proverbs 21:10
The soul of the wicked desireth evil, he will not have pity on his neighbour.

Jeremiah 11:15
What is the meaning that my beloved hath wrought much wickedness in my house? shall the holy flesh take away from thee thy crimes, in which thou hast boasted?

Proverbs 2:13
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