And the agent of LORD said to him, Why have thou smitten thy donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because thy way is perverse before me.

They have dealt corruptly with him. [They are] not his sons, [it is] their blemish, a perverse and crooked generation.

And he said, I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be. For they are a very perverse generation, sons in whom is no faithfulness.

Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, Thou son of a perverse rebellious woman, do I not know that thou have chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and to the shame of thy mother's nakedness?

With the pure thou will show thyself pure. And with the perverse thou will show thyself contrary.

God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

With the pure thou will show thyself pure. And with the perverse thou will show thyself contrary.

A perverse heart shall depart from me. I will know no evil thing.

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.

Though I be righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.