Proverbs 17:20 Cross References - LEB

²⁰ He who is crooked of heart* will not find goodness, and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity.

²⁶ To the pure you show yourself pure. but to the wicked you show yourself shrewd.

³² for he who is perverse is an abomination of Yahweh, but those who are upright are his confidence.

¹² A worthless man, an evil man, goes around with _⌊deceitful speech_⌋.* ¹³ Winking in his eye, shuffling in his foot, pointing in his fingers, ¹⁴ perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord.* ¹⁵ Upon _⌊such a man_⌋,* suddenly shall his calamity come; in a moment he will be damaged and there is no healing.*

¹³ The fear of Yahweh is hatred of evil, pride, and arrogance and an evil way. And I hate a mouth of perversity.

¹⁰ The winking of an eye causes* trouble, and the foolishness of lips comes to ruin.

¹⁴ Those who are wise lay up knowledge, but to the mouth of the fool, ruin draws near.

³¹ The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a tongue of perversity will be cut off.

⁶ The lips of a fool will bring strife, and his mouth calls out for a flogging. ⁷ The mouth of a fool is ruin to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul.*

¹² The wise man wins favor by the words of his mouth, but the fool is devoured by his own lips.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire! The world of unrighteousness,* the tongue, is set among our members, defiling the whole body and setting on fire _⌊the course of human existence_⌋*, being set on fire by hell. ⁷ For every species of animals and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures, is being tamed and has been tamed by the human species, ⁸ but no human being is able to tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.