Proverbs 16:30
Whoever, with astonished eyes, thinks up depravities, biting his lips, accomplishes evil.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
In Context
29A man of iniquity entices his friend, and he leads him along a way that is not good.
31Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:12An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth;
Proverbs 16:27The impious man digs up evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.
Micah 7:3The evil of their hands, they call good. The leader is demanding, and the judge is yielding, and the great is speaking the desire of his soul, and they have confused it.
Matthew 14:7And so he promised with an oath to give her whatever she would ask of him.
John 3:20For everyone who does evil hates the Light and does not go toward the Light, so that his works may not be corrected.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:30-31
29 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good. 30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. Here is another sort of evil men described to us, that we may neither do like them, nor have any thing to do with them. 1. Such as (like Satan) do all the mischief they can by force and violence, as roaring lions, and not only by fraud and insinuation, as subtle serpents: They are violent men, that do all by rapine and oppression, that… Read the whole commentary →