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

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A wicked person listens to malicious talk;[a]
a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.

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Footnotes

  1. 17:4 Lit to lips of iniquity

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 One with a twisted mind will not succeed,
and one with deceitful speech will fall into ruin.(A)

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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 a poor person who lives with integrity(A)
than someone who has deceitful 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 Like a madman who throws flaming darts and deadly arrows,(A)
19 so is the person who deceives his neighbor
and says, “I was only joking!”

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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 hates those it crushes,
and a flattering mouth causes ruin.

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