Verse 20

¶ He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 10:31 : 31 ¶ The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
• Prov 18:6-7 : 6 ¶ A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. 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, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
• Ps 18:26 : 26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
• Prov 3:32 : 32 For the froward [is] abomination to the LORD: but his secret [is] with the righteous.
• Prov 6:12-15 : 12 ¶ A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. 13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; 14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. 15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
• Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward 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] near destruction.