Proverbs 17:20
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Calamity Crooked Deceitful Evil Falleth Falls Find Findeth Finds Fixed Froward Good Heart Language Mind Mischief Perverse Perverted Prosper Prosperity Purposes Tongue Trouble Turned Wayward
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Calamity Crooked Deceitful Evil Falleth Falls Find Findeth Finds Fixed Froward Good Heart Language Mind Mischief Perverse Perverted Prosper Prosperity Purposes Tongue Trouble Turned Wayward
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English Standard Version
A man of crooked heart does not discover good, and one with a dishonest tongue falls into calamity.

New American Standard Bible
He who has a crooked mind finds no good, And he who is perverted in his language falls into evil.

King James Bible
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
One with a twisted mind will not succeed, and one with deceitful speech will fall into ruin.

International Standard Version
The person whose mind is perverse does not find good, and anyone with perverted speech falls into trouble.

NET Bible
The one who has a perverse heart does not find good, and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He that is perverse in his heart will not find good and he that perverts his tongue falls into evil.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A twisted mind never finds happiness, and one with a devious tongue [repeatedly]gets into trouble.

King James 2000 Bible
He that has a crooked heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into calamity.

American King James Version
He that has a fraudulent heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.

American Standard Version
He that hath a wayward heart findeth no good; And he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that is of a perverse heart, shall not find good: and he that perverteth his tongue, shall fall into evil.

Darby Bible Translation
He that hath a perverse heart findeth no good; and he that shifteth about with his tongue falleth into evil.

English Revised Version
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

Webster's Bible Translation
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

World English Bible
One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

Young's Literal Translation
The perverse of heart findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil.
Lexicon
He that hath a froward
`iqqesh  (ik-kashe')
distorted; hence, false -- crooked, froward, perverse.
heart
leb  (labe)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect
findeth
matsa'  (maw-tsaw')
to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
no good
towb  (tobe)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun
and he that hath a perverse
haphak  (haw-fak')
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
tongue
lashown  (law-shone')
the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
falleth
naphal  (naw-fal')
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
into mischief
ra`  (rah)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
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