12 A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
12 A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,
12 Riffraff and rascals talk out of both sides of their mouths.
12 A worthless person, a wicked man, Walks with a perverse mouth;
12 What are worthless and wicked people like? They are constant liars,
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 6:12
Commentary on Proverbs 6:12-19
(Read Proverbs 6:12-19)
If the slothful are to be condemned, who do nothing, much more those that do all the ill they can. Observe how such a man is described. He says and does every thing artfully, and with design. His ruin shall come without warning, and without relief. Here is a list of things hateful to God. Those sins are in a special manner provoking to God, which are hurtful to the comfort of human life. These things which God hates, we must hate in ourselves; it is nothing to hate them in others. Let us shun all such practices, and watch and pray against them; and avoid, with marked disapproval, all who are guilty of them, whatever may be their rank.