Proverbs 16:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁰ One who winks the eyes plans perverse things; one who compresses the lips brings evil to pass.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: Moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ He who shuts his eyes to devise perverse things and who compresses his lips [as if in concealment] brings evil to pass.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise perverse things: He that compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass.

Common English Bible

³⁰ Those who wink their eye plot destruction; those who purse their lips plan evil.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ Whoever, with astonished eyes, thinks up depravities, biting his lips, accomplishes evil.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ He that with fixed eyes deviseth wicked things, biting his lips, bringeth: evil to pass.

Proverbs 16:30 Cross References

Proverbs 10:10

Whoever winks the eye causes trouble, but one who rebukes boldly makes peace.

Proverbs 16:27

Scoundrels concoct evil, and their speech is like a scorching fire.

Proverbs 16:29

The violent entice their neighbors and lead them in a way that is not good.

Proverbs 16:31

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the mind of this people dull, and stop their ears, and shut their eyes, so that they may not look with their eyes and listen with their ears and comprehend with their minds and turn and be healed.”

Micah 7:3

Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.

Matthew 13:15

For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they might not look with their eyes, and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.’

John 3:20

For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.