Proverbes 17:20

Darby's French Translation

Celui qui est pervers de coeur ne trouve pas le bien; et celui qui use de détours avec sa langue tombe dans le mal.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Celui qui est pervers de cœur, ne trouvera point le bien; et l'hypocrite tombera dans la calamité.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Le cœur pervers ne trouvera point le bonheur, et la langue double tombera dans le malheur.

Louis Segond (1910)
Un coeur faux ne trouve pas le bonheur, Et celui dont la langue est perverse tombe dans le malheur.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He that hath a froward heart: Heb. The froward of heart, Proverbs 3:32, Proverbs 6:12-15, Proverbs 8:13, Psalms 18:26

and he: Proverbs 10:10, Proverbs 10:14, Proverbs 10:31, Proverbs 18:6, Proverbs 18:7, Ecclesiastes 10:12, James 3:6-8

Reciprocal: Job 9:20 - it shall Psalms 140:11 - an evil speaker Proverbs 4:24 - a Proverbs 10:9 - but Jeremiah 23:36 - for every

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that hath a froward heart findeth no good,.... Who is of a perverse spirit, meditates and devises evil things; is not ingenuous and sincere, but false and deceitful to God and men: such an one gets no good from either; he obtains not the favour of God, nor a good name, credit, and reputation among men;

and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief; or "that turns himself", or "is turned in his tongue" w; whose tongue is changeable, as the Septuagint and Arabic versions; who sometimes says one thing, and sometimes another, and is not consistent with himself; as well as is contrary to all men: sooner or later he falls into mischief, into a pit, which he himself has dug for others; see James 3:6.

w ונהפך בלשונו "qui verterit se", Pagninus; "et verteus se in lingua sua", Montanus; "qui vertitur in lingua sua". Mercerus, Gejerus.