Proverbs 16:30
People who give you a sly wink are plotting bad things; they purse their lips and make evil happen.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
In Context
29Violent people lure their friends, and lead them in a direction that's not good for them.
31Gray hair is a glorious crown; it's achieved by living right.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:12Rebellious and wicked people go around telling lies,
Proverbs 16:27Worthless people plot evil and their words burn like fire.
Micah 7:3They are experts at evil; both officials and judges ask for bribes; the powerful demand their evil desires; and they scheme together to get what they want.
Matthew 14:7So he promised with an oath to give her whatever she wanted.
John 3:20All those who do evil hate the light and don't come into the light, because they don't want their actions to be exposed.
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 →