'Perverse' in the Bible
“They have acted corruptly toward Him,They are not His children, because of their defect;But are a perverse and crooked generation.
“Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them,I will see what their end shall be;For they are a perverse generation,Sons in whom is no faithfulness.
Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you are choosing the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?
A perverse heart shall depart from me;I will know no evil.
To deliver you from the way of evil,From the man who speaks perverse things;
The perverse in heart are an abomination to the Lord,But the blameless in their walk are His delight.
A man will be praised according to his insight,But one of perverse mind will be despised.
A perverse man spreads strife,And a slanderer separates intimate friends.
He who winks his eyes does so to devise perverse things;He who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrityThan he who is perverse in speech and is a fool.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;He who guards himself will be far from them.
Your eyes will see strange thingsAnd your mind will utter perverse things.