for gain according to Ezekiel (Eze 22:27). Even King David was prohibited from building the temple because he had shed much blood (1Ch 22:8). The fourth phrase concerns the heart that “devises wicked schemes.” The “heart” (GK 4213) represents the will most often. Here it plots evil. God early on declared that the human heart was capable of this (Ge 6:5); and Proverbs elaborates on the theme, showing that the heart that schemes wickedness is also deceitful (12:20; 14:22). The fifth description uses