[427] Prov. xix. 22.
[428] Prov. xvii. 3.
[429] Prov. xx. 9.
[430] Prov. xvi. 4. This strange saying, interpreted in the light of the Gospel, cannot mean that wicked people are actually made in order to exhibit the righteousness and judgment of God in their punishment on the day of wrath, though that was probably the thought in the mind of the writer. But it reminds us of the truth that every human being is a direct concern of the Maker, who has His own wise purpose to fulfil in even the most inconsiderable and apparently abortive life.
[431] Prov. xxix. 22.
[432] Prov. xxix. 8.
[433] Prov. xxvi. 21.
[434] Prov. xxii. 24.
[435] Prov. xvii. 12.
[436] Prov. xiv. 17, 29.