Proverbs 17:20

King James 2000

He that has a crooked heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into calamity.

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With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the devious you will show yourself shrewd.

He that winks with the eye causes trouble: but a prating fool shall fall.

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom: but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

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

For the perverse is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

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

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