Proverbs 17:20 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁰ He who has a crooked heart finds no good, And he who has a perverse tongue falls into evil.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ He that is of a perverse heart, shall not find good: and he that perverteth his tongue, shall fall into evil.

Proverbs 17:20 Cross References

Psalm 18:26

With the clean You show Yourself clean; And with the crooked You show Yourself twisted.

Proverbs 10:10

He who winks with the eye causes sorrow, And one with foolish lips falls.

Proverbs 10:14

The wise treasure up knowledge, But the mouth of a fool is near ruin.

Proverbs 10:31

The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, But the tongue of perverseness is cut out.

Proverbs 24:20

For there is no future for the evil-doer; The lamp of the wrongdoers is put out.

Proverbs 3:32

For the perverse one is an abomination to יהוה, And His secret counsel is with the straight.

Proverbs 8:13

“The fear of יהוה is to hate evil. I have hated pride and arrogance, And the evil way, And the perverse mouth.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

Words of a wise man’s mouth show favour, but the lips of a fool swallow him up;