Proverbs 4:24 (BSB)

Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.

From Proverbs 4. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 4:24

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 4:20-27: Solomon, having warned us not to do evil, here teaches us how to do well. It is not enough for us to shun the occasions of sin, but we must study the methods of duty. I. We must have a continual regard to the word of God and endeavour that it may be always ready to us. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 4:24: Put away from thee a froward mouth,.... A mouth speaking froward and perverse things; things contrary to right reason, to the law of God, and Gospel of Christ; blasphemies against God or men; every thing that is untrue, unchaste, unjust, foolish, and filthy; all swearing, lying, and everything that is repugnant to truth and justice.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 4:24: a froward mouth--that is, a mouth, or words of ill nature. The Hebrew word differs from that used (Pro 2:15; Pro 3:32). perverse--or, "quarreling." lips--or, "words."
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 4:23-27: Pro 4:23-27 After this general preface the exhortation now becomes special: 23 Above all other things that are to be guarded, keep thy heart, For out from it life has its issues. 24 Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, And waywardness of lips put far from thee. 25 Thine eyes should look straight forward, And thine eyelids look straight to the end before thee.