Proverbs 16:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Scoundrels concoct evil, and their speech is like a scorching fire.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Proverbs 16:27 Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

Now a scoundrel named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjaminite, happened to be there. He sounded the trumpet and cried out, “We have no portion in David, no share in the son of Jesse! Everyone to your tents, O Israel!”

Psalm 57:4

I lie down among lions that greedily devour human prey; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of workers works for them; their hunger urges them on.

Proverbs 16:28

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

Proverbs 16:30

One who winks the eyes plans perverse things; one who compresses the 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 scoundrel and a villain goes around with crooked speech,

Proverbs 6:14

with perverted mind devising evil, continually sowing discord;

Isaiah 5:18

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

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor only to feed the flames and nations weary themselves for nothing?

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now, therefore, know this and consider what you should do, for evil has been decided against our master and against all his house; he is so ill-natured that no one can speak to him.”