Proverbs 10:10 (BSB)

He who winks the eye causes grief, and foolish lips will come to ruin.

From Proverbs 10. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 10:10

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 10:10: Mischief is here said to attend, 1. Politic, designing, self-disguising sinners: He that winks with the eye, as if he took no notice of you, when at the same time he is watching an opportunity to do you an ill turn, that makes signs to his accomplices when to come into assist him in executing his wicked projects, which are all carried on by trick...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 10:10: He that winketh with the eye,.... The Syriac and Arabic versions add, "with fraud". A descriptive character of a wicked man, Pro 6:13; who so does, either to draw and allure persons to go along with him, and join him in his evil practices; or by way of scorn and contempt of others; or as a token to another of its being the proper time...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 10:10: Two vices contrasted; hypocrisy, or insinuating evil against one (Pro 6:13; Psa 35:19), and rashness of speech. In each case, the results are on the evildoers.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 10:10: He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall. (e) That bears a fair countenance and imagines mischief in his heart, as in . (f) For the corruption of his heart is known by his talk.