Proverbs 16:27
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.”
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BSBPD
“A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“A worthless man deviseth mischief; And in his lips there is as a scorching fire.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips--as a burning fire.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Proverbs 16:27 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 25:17Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”
- 2 Samuel 20:1Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”
- Psalms 17:14from such men, O LORD, by Your hand— from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.
- Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
- Psalms 57:4My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
- Proverbs 2:4if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,
- Proverbs 6:12A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
- Proverbs 6:14With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
- Proverbs 16:30He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.
- Proverbs 19:28A corrupt witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.
- Isaiah 5:18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,
- Habakkuk 2:13Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
- James 3:6The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
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