The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaks frowardness.
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaks frowardness.
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable; But the mouth of the wicked'speaketh perverseness.
The lips of the upright man have knowledge of what is pleasing, but twisted are the mouths of evil-doers.
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable - And what they believe to be most pleasing and most profitable, that they speak, but the wicked man knows as well what is perverse, and that he speaketh forth. As the love of God is not in his heart, so the law of kindness is not on his lips.
Know - i. e., "Know, and therefore utter." So, in like manner, the "mouth of the wicked" knows, and therefore speaks frowardness, and that only.
10:32 The lips - Knowledge is here ascribed to the lips, as it is to the hands, Psalms 78:72 , because they are conducted by knowledge and wisdom. Acceptable - What is truly worthy of acceptation.