Parallel PRO 17:20

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BSB  ⇔ The one with a perverse heart finds no good,
⇔ and he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble.

OEB The false heart finds no good.
⇔ and the wily tongue comes to disaster.

WEB One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity,
⇔ and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

NET The one who has a perverse heart does not find good,
 ⇔ and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.

LSV The perverse of heart does not find good,
And the [one] turned in his tongue falls into evil.

FBV People with warped minds don't succeed; those who tell lies get into trouble.

T4T  ⇔ Those who ◄have perverse minds/are always thinking about doing evil things► will not prosper,
⇔ and disasters will happen to those who always tell lies.

LEB  • [fn] will not find goodness, and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity.

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BBE Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.

MOF No MOF PRO book available

JPS He that hath a froward heart findeth no good; and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into evil.

ASV He that hath a wayward heart findeth no good;
 ⇔ And he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

DRA He that is of a perverse heart, shall not find good: and he that perverteth his tongue, shall fall into evil.

YLT The perverse of heart findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil.

DBY He that hath a perverse heart findeth no good; and he that shifteth about with his tongue falleth into evil.

RV He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

WBS He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

KJB He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.[fn]
  (He that hath/has a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath/has a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.)

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BB Who so hath a frowarde heart, obteyneth no good: and he that hath a double tongue, shall fall into mischiefe.
  (Who so hath/has a frowarde heart, obteyneth no good: and he that hath/has a double tongue, shall fall into mischiefe.)

GNV The froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a naughtie tongue, shall fall into euill.
  (The froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath/has a naughtie tongue, shall fall into evil. )

CB Who so hath a frowarde herte, opteyneth no good: and he yt hath an ouerthwarte tonge, shal fall into myschefe.
  (Who so hath/has a frowarde heart, opteyneth no good: and he it hath/has an ouerthwarte tongue, shall fall into myschefe.)

WYC He that is of weiward herte, schal not fynde good; and he that turneth the tunge, schal falle in to yuel.
  (He that is of weiward heart, shall not find good; and he that turneth the tunge, shall fall in to yuel.)

LUT Ein verkehrt Herz findet nichts Gutes, und der verkehrter Zunge ist, wird in Unglück fallen.
  (Ein verkehrt Herz finds nichts Gutes, and the verkehrter Zunge is, becomes in Unglück fallen.)

CLV Qui perversi cordis est non inveniet bonum, et qui vertit linguam incidet in malum.
  (Who perversi cordis it_is not/no inveniet bonum, and who vertit linguam incidet in malum. )

BRN and the hard-hearted man [fn]comes not in for good. A man of a changeful tongue will fall into mischiefs;

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BrLXX ὁ δὲ σκληροκάρδιος οὐ συναντᾷ ἀγαθοῖς· ἀνὴρ εὐμετάβολος γλώσσῃ ἐμπεσεῖται εἰς κακὰ,
  (ho de sklaʸrokardios ou sunanta agathois; anaʸr eumetabolos glōssaʸ empeseitai eis kaka, )