Genesis 27:42
When these words of her elder son Esau were repeated to Rebekah, she sent for Jacob her younger son, and said to him, “Listen carefully, your brother Esau is comforting himself concerning you by planning to kill you.
Genesis 37:18-20
And when they saw him from a distance, even before he came close to them, they plotted to kill him.
Genesis 42:21-22
And they said to one another, “Truly we are guilty regarding our brother [Joseph], because we saw the distress and anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us [to let him go], yet we would not listen [to his cry]; so this distress and anguish has come on us.”
1 Samuel 30:5
Now David’s two wives had been captured, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite.
Job 20:12-14
“Though evil and wickedness are sweet in his mouth
And he hides it under his tongue,
Psalm 64:5
They encourage themselves in [their pursuit of] an evil agenda;
They talk of laying snares secretly;
They say, “Who will discover us?”
Proverbs 2:14
Who find joy in doing evil
And delight in the perversity of evil,
Proverbs 4:16-17
For the wicked cannot sleep unless they do evil;
And they are deprived of sleep unless they make someone stumble and fall.
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Comfort himself
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Comfort himself
“Though evil and wickedness are sweet in his mouth
And he hides it under his tongue,
They encourage themselves in [their pursuit of] an evil agenda;
They talk of laying snares secretly;
They say, “Who will discover us?”
Who find joy in doing evil
And delight in the perversity of evil,
For the wicked cannot sleep unless they do evil;
And they are deprived of sleep unless they make someone stumble and fall.