Proverbs 17:20

Modern English Version

He who has a crooked heart does not prosper; and he who has a deceitful tongue falls into calamity.

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with the pure You will show Yourself pure; and with the crooked You will show Yourself shrewd.

He who winks with the eye causes trouble, and a prating fool will fall.

Wise men store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool brings destruction near.

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

for there will be no future for the evil man; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

for the perverse is an abomination to the Lord, but His counsel is with the upright.

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and perverse speech do I hate.

The words from the mouth of a wise person bring favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.