Proverbs 16:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:12-14 : 12 A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words; 13 Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers; 14 His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.
  • Prov 10:10 : 10 He who makes signs with his eyes is a cause of trouble, but he who makes a man see his errors is a cause of peace.
  • Prov 16:27 : 27 A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.
  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.
  • Mic 7:3 : 3 Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.
  • Matt 13:15 : 15 For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
  • Matt 14:7-8 : 7 So he gave her his word with an oath to let her have whatever she might make request for. 8 And she, at her mother's suggestion, said, Give me here on a plate the head of John the Baptist.
  • Matt 27:23-26 : 23 And he said, Why, what evil has he done? But they gave loud cries, saying, To the cross with him! 24 So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible. 25 And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children. 26 Then he let Barabbas go free: but after having Jesus whipped, he gave him up to be put to death on the cross.
  • John 3:20 : 20 The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:12-15
    4 verses
    80%

    12A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;

    13Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers;

    14His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.

    15For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.

  • Ps 36:2-4
    3 verses
    78%

    2For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.

    3In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

    4He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

  • Prov 24:8
    77%

    8He whose purposes are bad will be named a man of evil designs.

  • Prov 16:27-29
    3 verses
    77%

    27A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.

    28A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.

    29A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good.

  • Prov 24:2
    76%

    2For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

  • Ps 10:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

    8He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

  • Prov 17:20
    75%

    20Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.

  • Prov 21:29
    75%

    29The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.

  • Prov 6:18
    75%

    18A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

  • Prov 10:10
    74%

    10He who makes signs with his eyes is a cause of trouble, but he who makes a man see his errors is a cause of peace.

  • Prov 17:4
    74%

    4A wrongdoer gives attention to evil lips, and a man of deceit gives ear to a damaging tongue.

  • Isa 31:2
    74%

    2Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.

  • Ps 50:19
    74%

    19You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

  • Prov 26:24
    74%

    24With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;

  • Prov 10:18
    73%

    18Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.

  • Ps 64:5
    73%

    5They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

  • Isa 32:7
    73%

    7The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.

  • Ps 52:2
    72%

    2Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

  • Job 5:13
    72%

    13He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.

  • Job 15:35
    72%

    35Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

  • Ps 31:18
    72%

    18Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

  • Prov 10:31-32
    2 verses
    72%

    31The mouth of the upright man is budding with wisdom, but the twisted tongue will be cut off.

    32The lips of the upright man have knowledge of what is pleasing, but twisted are the mouths of evil-doers.

  • Prov 26:26
    72%

    26Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.

  • Ps 41:6
    72%

    6If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

  • Ps 37:12
    72%

    12The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

  • Prov 17:23
    72%

    23A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

  • Prov 4:24
    72%

    24Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

  • Ps 34:13
    72%

    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

  • Job 20:12
    72%

    12Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;

  • Prov 4:16
    71%

    16For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

  • Ps 7:14
    71%

    14That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

  • Mic 7:3
    71%

    3Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

  • Prov 15:28
    71%

    28The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.

  • Ps 7:16
    71%

    16His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.

  • Isa 33:15
    71%

    15He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;

  • Prov 16:10
    71%

    10Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.

  • Job 24:15
    71%

    15And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;

  • Prov 1:16
    71%

    16For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

  • Ps 140:2
    71%

    2For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.

  • Prov 2:14
    71%

    14Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

  • Job 15:30
    71%

    30He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.