Proverbs 16:30
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
King James Version
In Context
29A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
31The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:12A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
Proverbs 16:27An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
Micah 7:3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
Matthew 14:7Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.
John 3:20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
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 →