Proverbs 4:24 New English Translation

²⁴Remove perverse speech^[a] from your mouth;^[b]
keep devious talk far from your lips.^[c]

Proverbs 4:24 tn Heb “crookedness.” The noun עִקְּשׁוּת (ʿiqq^eshut) refers to what is morally twisted or perverted. Here it refers to things that are said (cf. NAB “dishonest talk”; NRSV “crooked speech”). The term “mouth” functions as a metonymy of cause for perverse speech. Such perverse talking could be subtle or blatant.
Proverbs 4:24 tn Heb “crookedness of mouth.”
Proverbs 4:24 tn Heb “deviousness of lips put far from you.”

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