Proverbs 16:30
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
Proverbs 16:30 in other translations
| BSB | He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil. |
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| WEB | One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil. |
| ASV | He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise perverse things: He that compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass. |
| YLT | Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil. |
| DARBY | He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise froward things; biting his lips, he bringeth evil to pass. |
| BBE | He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about. |
| Webster | He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. |
What does Proverbs 16:30 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 16:29-30
Some do all the mischief they can by force and violence, and are blind to the result.
Proverbs 16:30 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 16:30
- Proverbs 6:12-14
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
- Matthew 13:15
For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
- Proverbs 16:27
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
- Isaiah 6:10
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
- Matthew 14:7-8
Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask. And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.
- Matthew 27:23-26
And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
- Proverbs 10:10
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
- Micah 7:3
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
- John 3:20
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Proverbs 16:29
A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
- Proverbs 16:30
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
- Proverbs 16:31
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Proverbs 16:30 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Cierra sus ojos para pensar perversidades; mueve sus labios, efectúa el mal. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Celui qui ferme ses yeux pour machiner la perversité, celui qui pince ses lèvres, accomplit le mal. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wer seine Augen zudrückt, um Verkehrtes zu ersinnen, seine Lippen zusammenkneift, hat das Böse beschlossen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Qui attonitis oculis cogitat prava, mordens labia sua perficit malum. |