Proverbs 2:14

Contemporary English Version

Most of all they enjoy being mean and deceitful.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
from those who enjoy doing eviland celebrate perversion,

Hebrew Names Version
Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

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

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

New Century Version
They enjoy doing wrong and are happy to do what is crooked and evil.

New English Translation
who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;

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

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

World English Bible
Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Which reioyce in doing euill, and delite in the frowardnesse of the wicked,

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
who delight in doing evil and take joy in being stubbornly deceitful,

Darby Translation
who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of evil;

Easy-to-Read Version
They enjoy doing evil and are happy with the confusion it brings.

George Lamsa Translation
Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perverseness of evil things;

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

Lexham English Bible
those who are happy to do evil, for they delight in the deviousness of evil,

Literal Translation
who rejoice to do evil, they delight in the perversities of the wicked,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
which reioyse in doynge euell, and delyte i wicked thinges:

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

Bible in Basic English
Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of evil;

King James Version (1611)
Who reioyce to doe euill, and delight in the frowardnesse of the wicked.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Which reioyce in doyng naught, and delite in the wickednesse of the euyll:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness;

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whiche ben glad, whanne thei han do yuel, and maken ful out ioye in worste thingis;

Update Bible Version
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;

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

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

New Life Bible
from the one who is happy doing wrong, and who finds joy in the way of sin.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who rejoice to do wrong, exult in the perversities of the wrongful;

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

Revised Standard Version
who rejoice in doing 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,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Who delight in doing evil And rejoice in the perversity of evil;

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Wisdom will control your mind, and you will be pleased with knowledge. ¹¹ Sound judgment and good sense will watch over you. ¹² Wisdom will protect you from evil schemes and from those liars ¹³ who turned from doing good to live in the darkness. ¹⁴ Most of all they enjoy being mean and deceitful. ¹⁵ They are dishonest themselves, and all they do is crooked. ¹⁶ Wisdom will protect you from the smooth talk of a sinful woman, ¹⁷ who breaks her wedding vows and leaves the man she married when she was young. ¹⁸ The road to her house leads down to the dark world of the dead. ¹⁹ Visit her, and you will never find the road to life again.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

rejoice: Proverbs 10:23, Jeremiah 11:15, Habakkuk 1:15, Zephaniah 3:11, 1 Corinthians 13:6

and: Hosea 7:3, Luke 22:4, Luke 22:5, Romans 1:32

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:42 - comfort himself Proverbs 6:14 - Frowardness

Cross-References

Genesis 15:18
At that time the Lord made an agreement with Abram and told him: I will give your descendants the land east of the Shihor River on the border of Egypt as far as the Euphrates River.

Deuteronomy 1:7
Leave this place and go into the land that belongs to the Amorites and their neighbors the Canaanites. This land includes the Jordan River valley, the hill country, the western foothills, the Southern Desert, the Mediterranean seacoast, the Lebanon Mountains, and all the territory as far as the Euphrates River.

Deuteronomy 11:24
You will capture the land everywhere you go, from the Southern Desert to the Lebanon Mountains, and from the Euphrates River west to the Mediterranean Sea.

Daniel 10:4
Then, on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, I was standing on the banks of the great Tigris River,

Revelation 9:14
The voice spoke to this angel and said, "Release the four angels who are tied up beside the great Euphrates River."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who rejoice to do evil,.... At the doing of it, or when they have done it; they are glad of an opportunity of doing mischief, and glory when they have done it; it is a sport and pastime to them,

Proverbs 10:2; they take pleasure in the act of sin, and have no remorse of conscience afterwards; they speak of it in an exulting manner, and boast of it, and glory in their shame;

[and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked: of the wicked man, as Aben Ezra and Gersom supply it; in the perversities and contradictions of every wicked man; they not only take pleasure in their own sins, but in the sins of others, and in them that commit them; which is an aggravation of their wickedness, Romans 1:32; they delight to hear a man speak froward and perverse things; things against God, and Christ, and religion, against all good men, and everything that is good; against the Gospel, the doctrines and ordinances of it; and they delight to see him do things perverse and contrary to the will of God. The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "they exult in the worst things".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The evil-doers here include not robbers and murderers only Proverbs 1:10-16, but all who leave the straight path and the open day for crooked ways, perverse counsels, deeds of darkness. “To delight etc.” Proverbs 2:14 is the lowest depth of all.