Proverbs 17:20 Cross References - CAB

²⁰ and the hard-hearted man finds no good. A man of a changeful tongue will fall into mischief,

²⁶ And with the excellent, You shall be excellent; and with the perverse, You shall be shrewd.

³² For every transgressor is unclean before the Lord, neither does he sit among the righteous.

¹² A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good. ¹³ And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his fingers. ¹⁴ His perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city. ¹⁵ Therefore his destruction shall come suddenly, overthrow and irretrievable ruin.

¹³ The fear of the Lord hates unrighteousness, insolence, pride, and the ways of wicked men; and I hate the perverse ways of bad men.

¹⁰ He that winks with his eyes deceitfully procures griefs for men, but he that reproves boldly is a peacemaker.

¹⁴ The wise will hide discretion, but the mouth of the hasty draws near to ruin.

³¹ The mouth of the righteous drops wisdom, but the tongue of the unjust shall perish.

⁶ The lips of a fool bring him into troubles, and his bold mouth calls for death. ⁷ A fool's mouth is ruin to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

¹² The words of a wise mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool will swallow him up.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. ⁷ For every kind of both beasts and birds, of both reptiles and sea creatures, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. ⁸ But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unrestrainable evil, full of deadly poison.