Proverbs 17:20

A Conservative Version

He who has a wayward heart finds no good, and he who has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.

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

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a foolish man is a present destruction.

He who winks with the eye causes sorrow. And a prating fool shall fall.

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

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

With the pure thou will show thyself pure. And with the perverse thou will show thyself contrary.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool will swallow himself up.

For there shall be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.