Proverbs 16:30
He that with fixed eyes deviseth wicked things, biting his lips, bringeth: evil to pass.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
In Context
29An unjust man allureth his friend: and leadeth him into 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 6:12A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,
Proverbs 16:27The wicked man diggeth evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.
Micah 7:3The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.
Matthew 14:7Whereupon he promised with an oath, to give her whatsoever she would ask of him.
John 3:20For every one that doth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.
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 →