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An evildoer heeds wicked lips.
    A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

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An evil-doer giveth heed to wicked lips;
And [a]a liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 17:4 Hebrew falsehood.

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

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

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  1. Proverbs 17:20 Or, calamity

19 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity
    than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

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19 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity
Than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

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18 Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,
19     is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”

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18 As a madman who casteth firebrands,
Arrows, and death,
19 So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor,
And saith, Am not I in sport?

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28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts;
    and a flattering mouth works ruin.

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28 A lying tongue hateth those whom it hath [a]wounded;
And a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 26:28 Hebrew crushed.