Proverbs 16:30
He winking his eynayim to plot perverse things, 1 compressing his sfatayim (lips), 1 bringeth ra'ah to pass. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
In Context
29An ish chamas enticeth his re'a, 1 and leadeth him into the derech that is not good. 1
31The silvery hair is an ateret tiferet; 1 it is found in the derech tzedakah. 1
Cross References
Proverbs 6:12A worthless person, a wicked man, 1 walketh with a perverse peh (mouth). 1
Proverbs 16:27An ish Beliya'al diggeth up ra'ah, 1 and in his sfatayim (lips) there is as a scorching eish. 1
Micah 7:3That they may do evil with both hands skillfully, 1 the sar and the shofet asketh for a bribe; 1 and hagadol uttereth the evil of his nefesh (soul); 1 so they weave it. 1
Matthew 14:7Herod, therefore, with a shevuah, promised to give to her whatever she might ask.
John 3:20For everyone walking in the derech resha'im has sin'as chinom (baseless hatred) for the Ohr and does not come to the Ohr, lest his ma'asim be exposed. + 3:20 Ps 1:6; Job 24:13-17
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 →