Proverbs 17:20
One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
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In Context
19He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
21He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
Cross References
Psalms 18:26With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
Proverbs 6:12A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,
Proverbs 10:10One who winks with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
Ecclesiastes 10:12The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:20
19 He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction. Note, 1. Those that are quarrelsome involve themselves in a great deal of guilt: He that loves strife, that in his worldly business loves to go to law, in religion loves controversies, and in common conversation loves to thwart and fall out, that is never well but when he is in the fire, he loves transgression; for a great deal of sin attends that sin, and the way of it is down-hill. He pretends to stand up for truth,… Read the whole commentary →