¹² A worthless, wicked scoundrel,
who goes around with a corrupt mouth,
¹³ who winks with his eye, signals with his foot,
and gestures with his fingers,
¹⁴ who plots evil with a deceitful heart—
he always spreads conflict.
¹⁵ Therefore his disaster will come upon him suddenly.
All at once he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

¹⁰ Whoever winks at evil causes trouble,
and a babbling fool will be ruined.
¹¹ The mouth of a righteous person is a fountain of life,
but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.^[a]

³ The integrity of the upright guides them,
but the dishonesty of the treacherous destroys them.

³⁰ A person who squints his eyes is plotting something perverse.
One who purses his lips has completed some evil plot.

¹⁴ “It’s no good! It’s no good!” says the buyer,
but then he goes away and brags.