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the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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New Living Translation

Proverbs 17:20

The crooked heart will not prosper; the lying tongue tumbles into trouble.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Heart;   Speaking;   The Topic Concordance - Frowardness;   Goodness;   Heart;   Mischief;   Perversion;   Speech/communication;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Heart, Character of the Unrenewed;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mind/reason;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Fool, Foolishness, and Folly;   Perverse;   Proverbs, Book of;   Tongue;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fool;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
He who has a crooked heart finds no good,And he who is perverted in his tongue falls into evil.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He who has a crooked mind finds no good, And he who is perverted in his language falls into evil.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Who so hath a frowarde heart, obteyneth no good: and he that hath a double tongue, shall fall into mischiefe.
Darby Translation
He that hath a perverse heart findeth no good; and he that shifteth about with his tongue falleth into evil.
New King James Version
He who has a deceitful heart finds no good, And he who has a perverse tongue falls into evil.
Literal Translation
One crooked of heart does not find good, and he who is perverse in his tongue falls into evil.
Easy-to-Read Version
Crooks will not profit from their crimes, and those who plan to cause trouble will be trapped when it comes.
World English Bible
One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, And one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
King James Version (1611)
He that hath a froward heart, findeth no good, and he that hath a peruerse tongue, falleth into mischiefe.
King James Version
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who so hath a frowarde herte, opteyneth no good: and he yt hath an ouerthwarte tonge, shal fall into myschefe.
THE MESSAGE
A bad motive can't achieve a good end; double-talk brings you double trouble.
Amplified Bible
He who has a crooked mind finds no good, And he who is perverted in his language falls into evil.
American Standard Version
He that hath a wayward heart findeth no good; And he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
Bible in Basic English
Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.
Update Bible Version
He that has a wayward heart finds no good; And he that has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.
Webster's Bible Translation
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
New English Translation
The one who has a perverse heart does not find good, and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.
Contemporary English Version
Dishonesty does you no good, and telling lies will get you in trouble.
Complete Jewish Bible
A crooked-hearted person will find nothing good, and the perverse of speech will end in calamity.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a naughtie tongue, shall fall into euill.
George Lamsa Translation
He who slanders in heart will not find good; and he who has an evil tongue falls into mischief.
Hebrew Names Version
One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, And one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good; and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into evil.
New Life Bible
He who has a sinful heart finds no good. He who has a sinful tongue falls into sin.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the hard-hearted man comes not in for good. A man of a changeful tongue will fall into mischiefs;
English Revised Version
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
Berean Standard Bible
The one with a perverse heart finds no good, and he whose tongue is deceitful will fall into trouble.
New Revised Standard
The crooked of mind do not prosper, and the perverse of tongue fall into calamity.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The crooked in heart, shall not find good, and, he that is perverse with his tongue, shall fall into wickedness.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He that is of a perverse heart, shall not find good: and he that perverteth his tongue, shall fall into evil.
Lexham English Bible
He who is crooked of heart will not find goodness, and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity.
English Standard Version
A man of crooked heart does not discover good, and one with a dishonest tongue falls into calamity.
New American Standard Bible
One who has a crooked mind finds nothing good, And one who is corrupted in his language falls into evil.
New Century Version
A person with an evil heart will find no success, and the person whose words are evil will get into trouble.
Good News Translation
Anyone who thinks and speaks evil can expect to find nothing good—only disaster.
Christian Standard Bible®
One with a twisted mind will not succeed, and one with deceitful speech will fall into ruin.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that is of weiward herte, schal not fynde good; and he that turneth the tunge, schal falle in to yuel.
Revised Standard Version
A man of crooked mind does not prosper, and one with a perverse tongue falls into calamity.
Young's Literal Translation
The perverse of heart findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil.

Contextual Overview

20 The crooked heart will not prosper; the lying tongue tumbles into trouble.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He that hath a froward heart: Heb. The froward of heart, Proverbs 3:32, Proverbs 6:12-15, Proverbs 8:13, Psalms 18:26

and he: Proverbs 10:10, Proverbs 10:14, Proverbs 10:31, Proverbs 18:6, Proverbs 18:7, Ecclesiastes 10:12, James 3:6-8

Reciprocal: Job 9:20 - it shall Psalms 140:11 - an evil speaker Proverbs 4:24 - a Proverbs 10:9 - but Jeremiah 23:36 - for every

Cross-References

Genesis 17:10
This is the covenant that you and your descendants must keep: Each male among you must be circumcised.
Genesis 17:12
From generation to generation, every male child must be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth. This applies not only to members of your family but also to the servants born in your household and the foreign-born servants whom you have purchased.
Genesis 17:18
So Abraham said to God, "May Ishmael live under your special blessing!"
Genesis 21:13
But I will also make a nation of the descendants of Hagar's son because he is your son, too."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that hath a froward heart findeth no good,.... Who is of a perverse spirit, meditates and devises evil things; is not ingenuous and sincere, but false and deceitful to God and men: such an one gets no good from either; he obtains not the favour of God, nor a good name, credit, and reputation among men;

and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief; or "that turns himself", or "is turned in his tongue" w; whose tongue is changeable, as the Septuagint and Arabic versions; who sometimes says one thing, and sometimes another, and is not consistent with himself; as well as is contrary to all men: sooner or later he falls into mischief, into a pit, which he himself has dug for others; see James 3:6.

w ונהפך בלשונו "qui verterit se", Pagninus; "et verteus se in lingua sua", Montanus; "qui vertitur in lingua sua". Mercerus, Gejerus.


 
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