'Mischief' in the Bible
[Just] as I have seen, plowers of mischief and sowers of trouble will reap it.
Indeed, mischief does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the earth.
[They] conceive trouble and bring forth mischief, and their womb prepares deceit."
Will you keep [to the] way of old that [the] people of mischief have trod,
Is not disaster for [the] evil one and ruin for [the] workers of mischief?
And he goes on the road in company with instigators of mischief, and walks with men of wickedness.
There is no darkness, and there is no deep shadow where instigators of mischief might hide themselves.
Would that Job were tested up to [the] end because [his] answers [are] like [those from] men of mischief,
So he opens their ear to the discipline, and he commands that they return from mischief.
Take care, you must not turn to mischief, for because of this you have been tried by misery.
He who does evil listens to lips of wickedness, [and] the liar gives heed to the tongue of mischief.
For their minds will devise violence, and their lips will speak mischief.
He who plans to do evil for himself, they will call [him] "master of mischief."
Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long} will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?
And he said to me, "Son of man, these [are] the men {who devise mischief}, and [who are] offering bad counsel in this city,