The declaration that the wicked love evil more than good and falsehood more than truth identifies the fundamental moral inversion at the heart of wickedness: it is not mere ignorance but active preference for what destroys. This verse articulates that evil is characterized not by weakness but by will—the wicked deliberately choose destruction over flourishing, falsehood over truth. The structural parallelism (evil over good, falsehood over truth) presents evil as a coherent system of inverted values, a comprehensive reorientation away from reality and toward illusion. This analysis locates the problem of wickedness not in external circumstances but in the corrupted will and distorted perception of what constitutes the good.

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