“One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 17 contains 28 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.