for their hearts devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble.
For their heart studieth destruction,.... To others; to good men, that separate from them, and reprove them, or are in their way; or any ways hinder them in the prosecution of their wicked designs; as Haman's heart studied the destruction of the Jews: or their hearts study to draw men into their destructive methods of living, and therefore should be shunned and avoided.
studieth--meditateth. talk . . . mischief--Their expressed purposes are to do evil.
They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. (q) Though drunkenness makes them more insensible then beasts, yet they can not refrain.
Commenting on Proverbs 24:1-6