Proverbs 16:30
He shutteth his eyes to devise perverse things: when he compresseth his lips then hath he fully resolved on evil.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
In Context
29The man of violence misleadeth his neighbor, and maketh him go on a way which is not good.
31An ornamental crown is the hoary head, on the way of righteousness can it be found.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:12A Godless person is a man of injustice, who walketh with a distorted mouth.
Proverbs 16:27An ungodly man diggeth up mischief, and on his lips there is as it were a scathing fire.
Micah 7:3For the evil of your hands you expect good? while the prince demandeth [bribes], and the judge acteth for pay; and the great man is only speaking the wilful pleasure of his soul: and so do they make a network [of wrong].
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 →