Proverbs 16:30
He that thinketh shrewd things with eyes astonied, biteth his lips, and performeth evil. (With astonished eyes, he thinketh depraved things, and biteth his lips, and performeth evil.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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 flattereth his friend; and leadeth him by a way not good.
31A crown of dignity is eld (age), that shall be found in the ways of rightfulness.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:12A man apostate, is a man unprofitable, he goeth with a wayward mouth;
Proverbs 16:27An unwise man diggeth evil; and fire burneth in his lips. (The unwise person diggeth up evil; and fire burneth on his lips.)
Micah 7:3The evil of their hands they say good; the prince asketh, and the doomsman is in yielding; and a great man spake the desire of his soul, and they troubled together it. (They say that the evil of their hands is good; the leader, or the ruler, and the judge, ask for gifts, or bribes; the great man spoke of the evil desire of his heart, and he got it; yea, they all make trouble together.)
Matthew 14:7Wherefore with an oath he promised to give to her, whatever thing she asked of him.
John 3:20For each man that doeth evil, hateth the light; and he cometh not to the light, (so) that his works be not 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 →