Whoever returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house—establishing that perverting good into occasion for evil produces lasting curse upon one's household. This verse addresses the particular wickedness of repaying kindness with harm, a violation so fundamental to relationship and covenant that it brings enduring judgment. The promise that evil will not depart from such a person's house suggests that the wrongdoer's own household becomes site of the curse he generated, implementing divine justice through his own life circumstances. This verse emphasizes that the fear of the LORD requires gratitude and reciprocal goodness toward those who show kindness.

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