Proverbs 16:30
He shutteth his eyes to deuise wickednes: he moueth his lippes, and bringeth euil to passe.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
In Context
29A wicked man deceiueth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
31Age is a crowne of glory, when it is founde in the way of righteousnes.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:12The vnthriftie man and the wicked man walketh with a froward mouth.
Proverbs 16:27A wicked man diggeth vp euill, and in his lippes is like burning fire.
Micah 7:3To make good for the euil of their hands, the prince asked, and the iudge iudgeth for a reward: therefore the great man he speaketh out the corruption of his soule: so they wrapt it vp.
Matthew 14:7Wherefore he promised with an othe, that he would giue her whatsoeuer she would aske.
John 3:20For euery man that euill doeth, hateth the light, neither commeth to light, least his deedes should be reprooued.
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 →