Proverbs 24:8 · World English Bible
Proverbs 24:8 Meaning One Who Plots to Do Evil Will
One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.
What does Proverbs 24:8 mean?
A mind that plans harm becomes, in its own sight, the very thing it schemes, for whatever it intends toward another it first pronounces upon itself. To devise injury is to accept the belief that attack is possible and real, and that acceptance names the one who holds it long before any deed is done.
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A mind that plans harm becomes, in its own sight, the very thing it schemes, for whatever it intends toward another it first pronounces upon itself. To devise injury is to accept the belief that attack is possible and real, and that acceptance names the one who holds it long before any deed is done. The label the ego would pin on an enemy settles instead on the mind that forged it, since guilt keeps nothing at a distance.
The undoing is to lay the scheming down. A mind that stops devising harm has no verdict left to fear, for the accusation it withheld from another it also withholds from itself, and finding no one guilty it is guiltless too.
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Live Proverbs 24:8 today
- If you are planning how to make someone pay for something, stop and ask who is actually carrying it right now. It is you.
- Drop one quiet plan you had to get even with someone, the pointed comment you were saving, the invitation you were going to withhold. Just let it go unused.
- When you want to subtly make someone look bad in front of others, choose not to. Whatever you were about to pin on them would have stuck to you.
What am I planning for someone else that I am already living with?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism · the Dhammapada
Harm aimed at another returns to the one who aimed it, the way dust thrown against the wind comes back.
Tao Te Ching 73
The net of heaven is wide, yet nothing slips through. No one gets outside the consequences of what they intend.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
He wrote that the wrongdoer harms himself first, since he makes himself worse. The injury lands at home before it travels.
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