Proverbs 17:20 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

²⁰ One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: And he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ He who has a wayward and crooked mind finds no good, and he who has a willful and contrary tongue will fall into calamity. [James 3:8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ He that hath a wayward heart findeth no good; And he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Those with crooked hearts won’t prosper, and those with twisted tongues will fall into trouble.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Whoever is of a perverse heart shall not find good. And whoever turns his tongue shall fall into evil.

Proverbs 17:20 Cross References

Psalm 18:26

With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

Proverbs 10:10

One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.

Proverbs 10:14

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

Proverbs 10:31

The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

Proverbs 24:20

for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.

Proverbs 3:32

For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD, but his friendship is with the upright.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.