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Note – All words or phrases found in quotation marks are actual parts of the Hebrew definition(s).

12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. 13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; 14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. 15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

Results of Wickedness

Who is this naughty and wicked person? We shall discover whom by way of an examination of the meaning of the words found in verse twelve.

“haughty person” in the Hebrew language =

1100. בְּלִיַּעַל b^elı̂ya˓al, bel-e-yah’-al; from 1097 and 3276; without profit, worthlessness; by extens. destruction, wickedness (often in connection with 376, 802, 1121, etc.):— Belial, evil, naughty, ungodly (men), wicked.

1097. בְּלִי b^elı̂y, bel-ee’; from 1086; prop. failure, i.e. nothing or destruction; usually (with prep.) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.:— corruption, ig[norantly], for lack of, where no … is, so that no, none, not, un[awares], without.

Please note from the Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary what or who “Belial” actually is. “1 — a biblical name of the devil or one of the fiends” – a naughty person is, that right, one of the devil’s friends. How horrid to called one of Satan’s friends.

“wicked” in the Hebrew language =

205. אָוֶֶן ˒âven, aw-ven’; from an unused root perh. mean. prop. to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught); strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; spec. an idol:— affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners (-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain ,vanity, wicked (-ness). comp. 369.

“froward” in the Hebrew language =

6143. עִקְּשׁוּת ˓iqq^eshûwth, ik-kesh-ooth’; from 6141; perversity:— × froward.

6141. עִקֵּשׁ ˓iqqêsh, ik-kashe’; from 6140; distorted; hence, false:— crooked, froward, perverse.

Now a look at verse thirteen.

A naughty and wicked man is deceitful, “winketh with his eyes” honesty is the exception not the rule. This type of man tells you who he is by where he goes and how he spends his time, “speaketh with his feet” little of which is godly. He shows what he believes about God and people by what he does, “teacheth with his fingers” his actions are his character.

“Forwardness” as found in verse fourteen, is defined in the Hebrew language as:

“8419. תַּהְפֻּכָה tahpûkâh, tah-poo-kaw’; from 2015; a perversity or fraud:— (very) froward (-ness, thing), perverse thing.” One cannot expect this type of person to be honest about who they are or what they do. Perversity when found in the Bible often does not mean perversity as we might think of it today, it means to twist and distort the truth, to be ungodly in many ways.

According to verse fourteen these types of people love to irritate, to try and get a rise out of people, to as the verse states continually cause irritation and strife to a greater or lesser degree. They are always up to something, some mischief.

However, look closely at what verse fifteen has to say about what happens to this type of person. “Calamity” is at their door quickly and often. A calamity that brings them to a “broken” state, a state that is without “remedy” or relief.

The Hebrew definition of the word “calamity” is as follows:

343. אֵיד ˒êyd, ade; from the same as 181 (in the sense of bending down); oppression; by impl. misfortune, ruin:— calamity, destruction.

The Hebrew definition of the word “remedy” is as follows:

4832. מַרְפֵּא marpê˒, mar-pay’; from 7495; prop. curative, i.e. lit. (concr.) a medicine, or (abstr.) a cure; fig. (concr.) deliverance, or (abstr.) placidity:— ([in-]) cure (-able), healing (-lth), remedy, sound, wholesome, yielding.

Note: Placidity means to be ‘serenely free of disturbance or interruption’.

What a cautionary truth! Does one want to end up “incurable” and without the ability to be made “wholesome and sound?” Better to be a godly person who practices the use of godly wisdom, prudence and discretion, then a person whose end is brokenness.

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Ephesians 4:11-16 NKJV

11And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— 16from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.