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A man is praised for prudent lips

"People will praise a man with prudent lips"

for prudent lips

"because he is prudent" or "because he speaks prudently."

the perverse heart is despised

"people will despise the one who always thinks evil thoughts" or "people will despise the one who takes good things and twists them into bad"