Proverbs 16:27 - Revised Standard Version

²⁷ A worthless man plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ An ungodly man diggeth up evil: And in his lips there is as a burning fire.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ A worthless man devises and digs up mischief, and in his lips there is as a scorching fire.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ A worthless man deviseth mischief; And in his lips there is as a scorching fire.

Common English Bible

²⁷ Worthless people dig up trouble; their lips are like a scorching fire.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ The impious man digs up evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ The wicked man diggeth evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.

Proverbs 16:27 Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

Now there happened to be there a worthless fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!”

Psalm 57:4

I lie in the midst of lions that greedily devour the sons of men; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

Proverbs 16:26

A worker's appetite works for him; his mouth urges him on.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 16:30

He who winks his eyes plans perverse things, he who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.

Proverbs 19:28

A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.

Proverbs 2:4

if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures;

Proverbs 6:12

A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,

Proverbs 6:14

with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor only for fire, and nations weary themselves for naught?

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is an unrighteous world among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of nature, and set on fire by hell.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now therefore know this and consider what you should do; for evil is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is so ill-natured that one cannot speak to him.”