Keil & Delitzsch, on Prov 16:30

“He that with fixed eyes deviseth wicked things, biting his lips, bringeth: evil to pass.”

“30 He who shutteth his eyes to devise falsehood; He who biteth his lips bringeth evil to pass. A physiognomical Caveto. The ἁπ. λεγ. עצה is connected with עצם, Isa 33:15 (Arab. transp. ghamḍ), comprimere, formed from it. Regarding קרץ of lips or eyes, vid., p. 144; the biting of the lips is the action of the deceitful, and denotes scorn, malice, knavery. The perf. denotes that he who is seen doing this has some evil as good as accomplished, for he is inwardly ready for it; Hitzig suitably compares Sa1 20:7, Sa1 20:33. Our editions (also Lwenstein) have כּלּה, but the Masora (vid., Mas. finalis, p. 1) numbers the word among those which terminate in א, and always writes כּלּא.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.