Proverbs 17:20

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

See the chapter Copy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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