Proverbs 16:30
He shutteth his eyes to deuise mischiefe: and moueth his lippes to bryng euyll to passe.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
In Context
29A wicked man beguyleth his neyghbour, and leadeth hym into the way that is not good:
31Age is a crowne of worshyp, yf it be founde in the way of ryghteousnesse.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:12An vngodly person, a wicked man, goeth with a frowarde mouth.
Proverbs 16:27An vngodly person stirreth vp euyll, and in his lippes he is as an hotte burnyng fyre.
Matthew 14:7Wherfore he promised with an othe, that he woulde geue her whatsoeuer she woulde aske.
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 →