Here we see a collection of character traits; a personality profile as it were: ungodly, perverse, whisperer, violent... it is not a man you'd want to have hanging around your world. Because the flavor of this man's life, the impact he has on everyone around him, as well as the impact he has on the world as a whole is unreservedly negative. He delights in the pain and misery he spreads. Perhaps not consciously, although it is certainly possible, but without question he feels better about himself when he brings others "down a peg". Sometimes he tells you, with some degree of pride, "I call 'em like I see 'em"; or "I call a spade a spade"... but make no mistake here, he derives satisfaction from hurting others. But beloved, we must pause and consider the possibility that HE is WE. For how much does this pattern fit our normal cultural experience? We are inundated with media that screams to all that the problems around us are because of this buzzword, or that group, that this man is the reason, or that man is the problem... while the truth is much closer to us. For it is an absolute truth that OUR lives effect the world around us. When we sin, we make the world worse. When we act in ways that do not line up with God's truth, when we allow our fallen human nature with its grandiose ideas of self and self-"right"-ness to lead our thinking, it is so easy to wallow in the muck and mire of destructive rhetoric. Worse, we never see just how ruinous our own impact has become. Because we see every problem as a problem with THEM, we never see that WE are THEY, we never acknowledge our own sin, we never repent, for we truly believe that we are never wrong. Oh, occasionally we may be "not exactly right", but wrong, ruined, sinful, rebels? "Never!" "Just look at how bad that guy is...", and of course, "I'm a victim, it's not my fault"... beloved, the starting point MUST be our own sin, our own rebellion, our own hearts... Turn to God, beg for mercy, cry aloud to heaven and do not cease until God makes you new. Deal first with your own log, then you will see clearly to help others with their splinters.