The heart {is} deceitful above all {things}, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, {and} hating one another.

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

All {things come} alike to all: {there is} one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as {is} the good, so {is} the sinner; {and} he that sweareth, as {he} that feareth an oath.

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart {is} evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. {a sweet...: Heb. a savour of rest or, satisfaction} {for the imagination: or, through the imagination}

And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason {of things}, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness {and} madness: {I applied...: Heb. I and mine heart compassed}

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

How much more abominable and filthy {is} man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. {conceive...: Heb. warm me}

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: {covetousness...: Gr. covetousnesses, wickednesses}

And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.

And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man {was} great in the earth, and {that} every imagination of the thoughts of his heart {was} only evil continually. {every...: or, the whole imagination: the Hebrew word signifieth not only the imagination, but also the purposes and desires} {continually: Heb. every day}

And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled {them} to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted {them} even unto strange cities.

The heart {is} deceitful above all {things}, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man {was} great in the earth, and {that} every imagination of the thoughts of his heart {was} only evil continually. {every...: or, the whole imagination: the Hebrew word signifieth not only the imagination, but also the purposes and desires} {continually: Heb. every day}

There is an evil {which} I have seen under the sun, as an error {which} proceedeth from the ruler: {from: Heb. from before}

And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: {imagination: or, stubbornness}

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;

And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.

O ye sons of men, how long {will ye turn} my glory into shame? {how long} will ye love vanity, {and} seek after leasing? Selah.

And they said, Stand back. And they said {again}, This one {fellow} came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, {even} Lot, and came near to break the door.

And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.

And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, {even} all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled {them} to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted {them} even unto strange cities.

And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, {thou} child of the devil, {thou} enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we {be here}, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.

And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.

And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight. {fell: Heb. bowed}

And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?

The wicked man travaileth with pain all {his} days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

The way of man {is} froward and strange: but {as for} the pure, his work {is} right.

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?