Verse 20

The perverse of heart findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 10:31 : 31 The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And the tongue of frowardness is cut out.
• Prov 18:6-7 : 6 The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth. 7 The mouth of a fool `is' ruin to him, And his lips `are' the snare of his soul.
• Eccl 10:12 : 12 Words of the mouth of the wise `are' gracious, And the lips of a fool swallow him up.
• Jas 3:6-8 : 6 and the tongue `is' a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna. 7 For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature, 8 and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, `it is' an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,
• Ps 18:26 : 26 With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,
• Prov 3:32 : 32 For an abomination to Jehovah `is' the perverted, And with the upright `is' His secret counsel.
• Prov 6:12-15 : 12 A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking `with' perverseness of mouth, 13 Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers, 14 Frowardness `is' in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth. 15 Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken -- and no healing.
• Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of Jehovah `is' to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.
• Prov 10:10 : 10 Whoso is winking the eye giveth grief, And a talkative fool kicketh.
• Prov 10:14 : 14 The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool `is' near ruin.