Text -- Proverbs 4:24 (NET)

4:24 Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 4:24

¹ tn Heb “crookedness.” The noun עִקְּשׁוּת (’iqqÿshut) 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.

² tn Heb “crookedness of mouth.”

³ tn Heb “deviousness of lips put far from you.”