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The Words of the Godly vs. the Godless

Proverbs 10:32 Updated American Standard Version (UASV)
³²The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: Once more, as was true in verses 11, 13, 18, 20, 21, and in 31 above, we have a part of the body (tongue, mouth, lips) being used with reference to the speech of good people. It is the person who knows what is acceptable not the lips of the righteous. What is acceptable are the speech, words, and thoughts from the mouth of the righteous (10:31), which can bring forth wisdom.

but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse: Here perverse for the wicked is the same as 10:31 with the wicked one’s speech, words, and thoughts being unreasonable or unacceptable, as they are false, untrue, confounding, and twisting sound moral judgment.

We, then, want to always do our very best to be in harmony with godly principles. Let us always keep our lips under control and use our tongue to encourage and develop others with the life-saving truth of God’s Word, as we guide them to the way of righteousness. It should be our desire to be pure and clean in the words that we utter and the thoughts that pass through our mind, to be considered with the great men and women of faith of old: Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Sarah, Hannah, Ruth, Abigail, Esther, and Mary.