Proverbs 6:12 (BSB)

A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,

From Proverbs 6. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 6:12

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 6:12-19: Solomon here gives us, I. The characters of one that is mischievous to man and dangerous to be dealt with. If the slothful are to be condemned, that do nothing, much more those that do ill, and contrive to do all the ill they can. It is a naughty person that is here spoken of, Heb.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 6:12: He winketh with his eyes,.... Not through natural infirmity, but purposely and with design; with one of his eyes, as Aben Ezra, as is usual with such persons: it is the air and gesture of a sneering and deceitful man, who gives the wink to some of his friends, sneering at the weakness of another in company; or as signifying to them some secret design...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 6:12: A naughty person--literally, "A man of Belial," or of worthlessness, that is, for good, and so depraved, or wicked (compare Sa1 25:25; Sa1 30:22, &c.). Idleness and vice are allied. Though indolent in acts, he actively and habitually (walketh) is ill-natured in speech (Pro 4:24).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 6:12: A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. (f) He shows to what inconvenience the idle persons and sluggards come, by calling them unthrifty, or the men of Belial, and slanderous.