Proverbs 4:24 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 4:24

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

KJV

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WEB

Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.

DBT

Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, and corrupt lips put far from thee.

ASV

Put away from thee a wayward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee.

YLT

Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee,

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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14 verses on the floor

James 1:26
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 8:8
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
Proverbs 6:12
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
Ephesians 4:25–31
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

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7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. 8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. 9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

All manner of tongue sins, we must, by constant watchfulness and stedfast resolution, put from us, put far from us, abstaining from all words that have an appearance of evil and fearing to learn any such words. We must make a covenant with our eyes: "Let them look right on and straight before thee,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Turn it from beholding vanity; let thy eye be single and not divided; let thy intentions be sincere and uniform, and look not asquint at any by-end." We must keep our eye upon our Master, and be careful to approve ourselves to him; keep our eye upon our rule, and conform to that; keep our eye upon our mark, the prize of the high calling, and direct all towards that.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

a froward mouth--that is, a mouth, or words of ill nature. The Hebrew word differs from that used (Pr 2:15; 3:32). perverse--or, "quarreling." lips--or, "words."

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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