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Proverbs 10:32
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Proverbs 10:32
32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
32†The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardnesse.
- Hebr. frowardnesses.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 10:32
Just, right, or conforming to God's law and judgment; equitable or upright; as a noun, a person characterized as righteous.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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acceptable
That may be received with pleasure; Agreeable or pleasing in person.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
frowardness
Perversity, stubborn disobedience, or a disposition contrary to what is right.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study11By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
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Open the full verse study18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
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Open the full verse study6The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
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Open the full verse study28The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
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Open the full verse study12To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
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Open the full verse study10The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
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Open the full verse study2The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
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Open the full verse study6A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
7A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
8The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
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Open the full verse study27Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
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Open the full verse study12The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
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Open the full verse study8Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
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