Proverbs 17:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ 1 An evil man always seeketh quarrels: but a cruel angel shall be sent against him.

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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

6 My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.

Proverbs 14:15

2 They err that work evil: but mercy and truth prepare good things.

Proverbs 28:4

1 The rich man seemeth to himself wise: but the poor man that is prudent shall search him out.

Isaiah 30:10

8 Therefore the Lord waiteth that be may have mercy on you: and therefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the Lord is the God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

Jeremiah 5:31

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.

1 John 4:5

4 And we have seen, and do testify, that the Father hath sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.