Verse 20

He that hath a wayward heart findeth no good; And he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 10:31 : 31 The mouth of the righteous bringeth forth wisdom; But the perverse tongue shall be cut off.
• Prov 18:6-7 : 6 A fool's lips enter into contention, And his mouth calleth for stripes. 7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul.
• Eccl 10:12 : 12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
• Jas 3:6-8 : 6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind. 8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison.
• Ps 18:26 : 26 With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.
• Prov 3:32 : 32 For the perverse is an abomination to Jehovah; But his friendship is with the upright.
• Prov 6:12-15 : 12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth; 13 That winketh with his eyes, that speaketh with his feet, That maketh signs with his fingers; 14 In whose heart is perverseness, Who deviseth evil continually, Who soweth discord. 15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.
• Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.
• Prov 10:10 : 10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow; But a prating fool shall fall.
• Prov 10:14 : 14 Wise men lay up knowledge; But the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.