He who devises to do evil, men shall call him a mischief-maker.
For they intended evil against thee. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents;
Do they not err who devise evil? But mercy and truth [are to] those who devise good.
a heart that devises wicked purposes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who sows discord.
He has gone forth out of thee, who devises evil against LORD, who counsels wickedness.
And the instruments of the churl are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
The thought of folly is sin. And the scoffer is an abomination to men.
For their heart meditates oppression, and their lips talk of mischief.
The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou know all the iniquity which thy heart is privy to, what thou did to David my father. Therefore LORD shall return thy iniquity upon thine own head.