'Perverse' in the Bible
The angel of the Lord said to him, "Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you because what you are doing is perverse before me.
His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children -- this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.
He said, "I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.
You prove to be reliable to one who is blameless, but you prove to be deceptive to one who is perverse.
Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.
You prove to be reliable to one who is blameless, but you prove to be deceptive to one who is perverse.
I will have nothing to do with a perverse person; I will not permit evil.
who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;
Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.
A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;
he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times.
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances.
The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing, but the speech of the wicked is perverse.
The Lord abhors those who are perverse in heart, but those who are blameless in their ways are his delight.
Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse tongue breaks the spirit.
A perverse person spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends.
The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips brings about evil.
The one who has a perverse heart does not find good, and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.
Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is perverse in his speech and is a fool.
Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.
A poor person who walks in his integrity is better than one who is perverse in his ways even though he is rich.
The one who walks blamelessly will be delivered, but whoever is perverse in his ways will fall at once.
Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker, "He didn't make me"? Or should the pottery say about the potter, "He doesn't understand"?