| Verse | Translation | Text |
| Pr 17:20 | Strong Concordance | He that hath a froward [06141] heart [03820] findeth [04672] no good [02896]: and he that hath a perverse [02015] tongue [03956] falleth [05307] into mischief [07451]. |
| King James | He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief. |
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| The second clause advances on the first. The ill-natured fail of good, and the cavilling and fault-finding incur evil. |