The Meaning of Proverbs 16:30 Explained

Proverbs 16:30

KJV: He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

YLT: Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil.

Darby: He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise froward things; biting his lips, he bringeth evil to pass.

ASV: He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise perverse things: He that compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

He shutteth  his eyes  to devise  froward things:  moving  his lips  he bringeth  evil  to pass. 

What does Proverbs 16:30 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Proverbs 16

1  The Plans of the heart

What do the individual words in Proverbs 16:30 mean?

He winks his eye to devise perverse things He purses his lips [and] brings about evil
עֹצֶ֣ה עֵ֭ינָיו לַחְשֹׁ֣ב תַּהְפֻּכ֑וֹת קֹרֵ֥ץ שְׂ֝פָתָ֗יו כִּלָּ֥ה רָעָֽה

עֹצֶ֣ה  He  winks 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: עָצָה  
Sense: (Qal) to shut.
עֵ֭ינָיו  his  eye 
Parse: Noun, cdc, third person masculine singular
Root: עֹונָה 
Sense: eye.
לַחְשֹׁ֣ב  to  devise 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: חָשַׁב 
Sense: to think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count.
תַּהְפֻּכ֑וֹת  perverse  things 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: תַּהְפֻּכֹות  
Sense: perversity, perverse thing.
קֹרֵ֥ץ  He  purses 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: קָרַץ  
Sense: to narrow, form, nip, pinch, squeeze, wink, purse.
שְׂ֝פָתָ֗יו  his  lips 
Parse: Noun, fdc, third person masculine singular
Root: שָׂפָה  
Sense: lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding.
כִּלָּ֥ה  [and]  brings  about 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: כָּלָה  
Sense: to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent.
רָעָֽה  evil 
Parse: Adjective, feminine singular
Root: רַע 
Sense: bad, evil.