mischievous

11 occurrences across the corpus

King James Version

Psalms 21:11

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

Psalms 38:12

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

Proverbs 24:8

He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.

Ecclesiastes 10:13

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

Micah 7:3

That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

KJV Apocrypha (Catholic Deuterocanon)

Additions to Esther 14:19

O thou mighty God above all, hear the voice of the forlorn and deliver us out of the hands of the mischievous, and deliver me out of my fear.

Wisdom of Solomon 15:4

For neither did the mischievous invention of men deceive us, nor an image spotted with divers colours, the painters fruitless labour;

Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 11:33

Take heed of a mischievous man, for he worketh wickedness; lest he bring upon thee a perpetual blot.

Susanna 1:28

And it came to pass the next day, when the people were assembled to her husband Joacim, the two elders came also full of mischievous imagination against Susanna to put her to death;

Apostolic Fathers

Ignatius to Polycarp 1:7

If thou shalt love the good disciples, what thank is it? But rather do thou subject to thee those that are mischievous, in meekness.

OT Pseudepigrapha

The Story of Ahikar 7:35

O my son! thou hast been like the serpent riding on a thorn-bush when he was in the midst of a river, and a wolf saw them and said, "Mischief upon mischief, and let him who is more mischievous than they direct both of them."