Proverbs 16:30
And the man that fixes his eyes devises perverse things, and marks out with his lips all evils: he is a furnace of wickedness.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
In Context
29A transgressor tries to ensnare friends, and leads them in ways that are not good.
31Old age is a crown of + 16:31 Gr. boasting.honour, but it is found in the ways of righteousness.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:12A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good.
Proverbs 16:27But the perverse bears destruction upon his own mouth: a foolish man digs up evil for himself, and treasures fire on his own lips.
Micah 7:3they prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks a reward, and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul:
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 →