Proverbs 16:30
Good News Translation
Watch out for people who grin and wink at you; they have thought of something evil.

New Revised Standard Version
One who winks the eyes plans perverse things; one who compresses the lips brings evil to pass.

Contemporary English Version
When someone winks or grins behind your back, trouble is on the way.

New American Bible
Whoever winks an eye plans perversity; whoever purses the lips does evil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that with fixed eyes deviseth wicked things, biting his lips, bringeth evil to pass.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that with fixed eyes deviseth wicked things, biting his lips, bringeth evil to pass.

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Proverbs 6:12-14 He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger. . . .

Proverbs 10:10 The mouth of the just is a vein of life: and the mouth of the wicked covereth iniquity.

Isaiah 6:10 Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them.

Matthew 13:15 For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears they have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut: lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

John 3:20 For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.

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Proverbs 16:27 The wicked man diggeth evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.

Micah 7:3 The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.

Matthew 14:7,8 Whereupon he promised with an oath, to give her whatsoever she would ask of him. . . .

Matthew 27:23-26 The governor said to them: Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying: Let him be crucified. . . .

Context
The Reply of the Tongue is from the LORD
29An unjust man allureth his friend: and leadeth him into a way that is not good. 30He that with fixed eyes deviseth wicked things, biting his lips, bringeth evil to pass.31Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.…
Cross References
Proverbs 16:29
An unjust man allureth his friend: and leadeth him into a way that is not good.

Proverbs 16:31
Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.

Proverbs 16:29
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