Proverbs 17:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁴ A wicked person listens to malicious talk; a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; And a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ An evildoer gives heed to wicked lips; and a liar listens to a mischievous tongue.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ An evil-doer giveth heed to wicked lips; And a liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.

Common English Bible

⁴ An evildoer pays attention to guilty lips; a liar listens to a destructive tongue.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ The evil obey an unjust tongue. And the false are submissive to lying lips.

Proverbs 17:4 Cross References

Job 16:11

God hands me over to the unjust; he throws me to the wicked.

Proverbs 14:15

The inexperienced one believes anything, but the sensible one watches  his steps.

Proverbs 28:4

Those who reject the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law pit themselves against them.

Isaiah 30:10

They say to the seers, ‘Do not see,’ and to the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy the truth to us. Tell us flattering things. Prophesy illusions.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?

1 John 4:5

They are from the world.  Therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.