Verse 20

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

Referenced Verses

• Prov 10:31 : 31 The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
• Prov 18:6-7 : 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.
• Eccl 10:12 : 12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.
• Jas 3:6-8 : 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 Gehenna. 7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
• Ps 18:26 : 26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
• Prov 3:32 : 32 For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.
• Prov 6:12-15 : 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.
• Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
• Prov 10:10 : 10 One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.
• Prov 10:14 : 14 Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.