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12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity,
Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;
13 That winketh with his eyes, that [a]speaketh with his feet,
That [b]maketh signs with his fingers;
14 In whose heart is perverseness,
Who deviseth evil continually,
Who [c]soweth discord.
15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly;
On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:13 Or, shuffleth
  2. Proverbs 6:13 Or, teacheth with
  3. Proverbs 6:14 Hebrew letteth loose.

10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow;
But [a]a prating fool [b]shall fall.
11 The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life;
But [c]violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 10:10 Hebrew the foolish of lips.
  2. Proverbs 10:10 Or, shall be overthrown (or, laid low)
  3. Proverbs 10:11 Or, the mouth of the wicked covereth violence

The integrity of the upright shall guide them;
But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

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30 [a]He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise perverse things:
He that compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass.

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  1. Proverbs 16:30 Or, He that shutteth his eyes to devise perverse things, That compresseth his lips, bringeth etc.

14 It is bad, it is bad, saith the buyer;
But when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

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Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye,
Neither desire thou his dainties:
For [a]as he thinketh within himself, so is he:
Eat and drink, saith he to thee;
But his heart is not with thee.
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up,
And lose thy sweet words.

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  1. Proverbs 23:7 Or, as one that reckoneth

23 Fervent lips and a wicked heart
Are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips;
But he layeth up deceit within him:
25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not;
For there are seven abominations in his heart:
26 Though his hatred cover itself with guile,
His wickedness shall be openly showed before the assembly.

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