THEOSISProverbs 17:20Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
He that is of a perverse heart, shall not find good: and he that perverteth his tongue, shall fall into evil.
עִקֶּשׁ־לֵ֭ב לֹ֣א יִמְצָא־ט֑וֹב וְנֶהְפָּ֥ךְ בִּ֝לְשׁוֹנ֗וֹ יִפּ֥וֹל בְּרָעָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jas 3:6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.
- Jas 3:8But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison.
- Prov 10:31The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom: the tongue of the perverse shall perish.
- Ps 18 (17):26
- Prov 10:10He that winketh with the eye, shall cause sorrow: and the foolish in lips shall be beaten.
- Prov 6:12A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,
- Prov 6:15To such a one his destruction shall presently come, and he shall suddenly be destroyed, and shall no longer have any remedy.
- Prov 10:14Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the fool is next to confusion.