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Pro_2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Ver. 14. Who rejoice to do evil.] It is their meat, drink, sport; {Pro_4:27; Pro_10:23} they cannot be merry unless the devil be their play fellow. This is reckoned as an aggravation of Jerusalem’s sin: "When thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest." {Jer_11:15} But better is the sorrow of him that suffereth evil than the jollity of him that doth evil, saith Augustine. {a}
{a} Melior est tristitia iniqua patientis quam laetitia iniqua facientis.