It is a sign that the heart is hardened to the highest degree when it is thus fully set to do evil and fears no colours. It is the office of conscience to discourage men in an evil matter, but, when that is baffled, the case is desperate. They commune of laying snares privily. All their communion is in sin and all their communication is how to sin securely. A practical disbelief of God's omniscience is at the bottom of all the wickedness of the wicked.
Evil men dig up mischief.
Half the pains that many take to damn their souls would serve to save them. By the unaccountable wickedness of their wit and of their will, they show themselves to be, both in subtlety and malignity, the genuine offspring of the old serpent. God's Judgments on Persecutors. The judgments of God which should certainly come upon these malicious persecutors of David. Though they encouraged themselves in their wickedness, here is that which, if they would believe and consider it, was enough to discourage them.