Proverbs 17:20

Modern King James Version

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

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

He who winks the eye causes sorrow; but a babbling fool shall fall.

Wise ones store up knowledge; but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

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

for there shall not be a hereafter to the evil; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

For the crooked man is hateful to Jehovah, but His secret is with the righteous.

The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; I hate pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the wicked mouth.

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