Proverbs 17:20 Cross References - NHEB

²⁰ One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

²⁶ With the pure you show yourself pure. And with the crooked you show yourself tortuous.

³² For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD, but his friendship is with the upright.

¹² A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth; ¹³ who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers; ¹⁴ in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord. ¹⁵ Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

¹³ The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

¹⁰ The one who winks with the eye causes trouble, but the one who boldly rebukes makes peace.

¹⁴ Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

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

⁶ A fool's lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. ⁷ A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

¹² The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by hell. ⁷ For all kinds of animals, and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures, are being tamed and have been tamed by humankind. ⁸ But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.