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NASB | Proverbs 17:20 He who has a crooked mind finds no good, And he who is perverted in his language falls into evil. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Proverbs 17:20 He who has a crooked mind finds no good, And he who is perverted in his language falls into evil. [James 3:8] |
Subject: Roots of Words |
Bible Note: "Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien, or most graceful action, would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rustics or mechanics, so the most heroic sentiments will lose their efficacy, and the most splendid ideas drop their magnificence, if they are conveyed by words used commonly upon low and trivial occasions, debased by vulgar mouths, and contaminated by inelegant applications. Truth indeed is always truth, and reason is always reason; they have an intrinsic and unalterable value, and constitute that intellectual gold which defies destruction: but gold may be so concealed in baser matter, that only a chemist can recover it; sense may be so hidden in unrefined and plebeian words, that none but philosophers can distinguish it; and both may be so buried in impurities, as not to pay the cost of their extraction." --Samuel Johnson (1779) |
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