Proverbs 17:4 - Revised Standard Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ The evil man obeyeth an unjust tongue: and the deceitful hearkeneth to lying lips.

Proverbs 17:4 Cross References

Job 16:11

God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

Proverbs 14:15

The simple believes everything, but the prudent looks where he is going.

Proverbs 28:4

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them.

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, “See not”; and to the prophets, “Prophesy not to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

1 John 4:5

They are of the world, therefore what they say is of the world, and the world listens to them.