Proverbs 10:20 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁰ 7 The fear of the Lord shall prolong days: and the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ The tongue of the just is as choice silver: The heart of the wicked is little worth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ The tongues of those who are upright and in right standing with God are as choice silver; the minds of those who are wicked and out of harmony with God are of little value.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ The tongue of the righteous is as choice silver: The heart of the wicked is little worth.

Common English Bible

²⁰ The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked lacks value.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ The tongue of the just is choice silver. But the heart of the impious is exchanged for nothing.

Proverbs 10:20 Cross References

Genesis 6:5

And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

Genesis 8:21

1 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

Psalm 37:30

7 Keep innocence, and behold justice : for there are remnants for the peaceable man.

Proverbs 12:18

5 Grief in the heart of a man shall bring him low, but with a good word he shall be made glad.

Proverbs 15:4

1 Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more the hearts of the children of men?

Proverbs 16:13

0 The learned in word shall find good things: and he that trusteth in the Lord is blessed.

Proverbs 20:15

2 Say not: I will return evil: wait for the Lord and he will deliver thee.

Proverbs 23:7

4 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.

Proverbs 8:19

6 He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world.

Jeremiah 17:9

7 Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my hope in the day of affliction.