to deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

For the perverse man is an abomination to LORD, but his friendship is with the upright.

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

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

The fear of LORD is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

The mouth of a righteous man brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut off.

Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to LORD, but such as are perfect in [their] way are his delight.

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

He who walks in his uprightness fears LORD, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

A perverse man scatters abroad strife, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

He who shuts his eyes devises perverse things. He who moves his lips brings evil to pass.

He who has a wayward heart finds no good, and he who has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Thorns [and] snares are in the way of a perverse man. He who keeps his soul shall be far from them.

Better is the poor man who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in [his] ways, though he be rich.

He who walks uprightly shall be delivered, but he who is perverse in [his] ways shall fall at once.