Some Thoughts From Proverbs 2

Proverbs 2: 12

¹² delivering you from the way of evil,
    from men of perverted speech,

There is a book, I can't recall the author, the title is The Mystery of Iniquity, which by title warns

the difficulty in understanding evil.

The most glaring illustration of the way serial killers are handled; when caught and convicted they are either imprisoned for life, or in Texas are given capital punishment. This is in spite of labeling them as sick. They are said to be evil but the evil is a sickness.

It is cruel beyond description to put a person to death or imprison them for life because they are ill. The statement which is spoken often is “they must be sick or they would not have done what they did”.

Those that say the above have absolutely no understanding of sin. "The way of evil" is anything the mind of man can conjure. From burning cats to killing and eating his mother, the sinner is subject to the evil of his nature to whatever degree it is unrestrained.