Proverbs 16:30 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: But a prating fool shall fall.

Proverbs 16:27

A worthless man deviseth mischief: And in his lips there is as a scorching fire.

Proverbs 16:29

A man of violence enticeth his neighbour, And leadeth him in a way that is not good.

Proverbs 16:31

The hoary head is a crown of glory, It shall be found in the way of righteousness.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the mischief of his soul: thus they weave it together.

Matthew 13:15

For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.

John 3:20

For every one that doeth ill hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.