Frowardness [is] in his heart
Or perverse things; evil habits and principles of sin; all manner
of wickedness, errors and heresies; things contrary to right
reason, repugnant to the will and law of God, and the reverse of
sound doctrine; all evil thoughts and evil things; see ( Matthew
15:19 ) ; he deviseth mischief continually;
against his neighbours, and especially against good men; he is
continually planning schemes, contriving methods, ways, and
means, how to disturb, distress, and ruin men; being a true child
of Belial, or of the devil, his heart is the forge where he is
continually framing wickedness in one shape or another; and the
ground which he is always ploughing up and labouring at to bring
forth sin and wickedness, and with which it is fruitful; he
soweth discord;
or "strifes" F26: the Syriac version adds, "between
two"; which Jarchi interprets between a man and his Maker; rather
between a man and his neighbour; between one friend and another;
between husband and wife, parents and children, brethren and
brethren, magistrates and subjects; between kings and princes of
the earth in which sort of work the man of sin, antichrist, has
been very busy. The Targum is, "he casteth out strifes", as
firebrands among men. The words in the Hebrew text are, "he
sendeth out discord", or "strife" F1; these are the
messengers sent out by him to make mischief.