Proverbs 16:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁷ A worthless man deviseth mischief: And in his lips there is as 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.

Proverbs 16:27 Cross References

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

Proverbs 6:14

Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth evil continually; He soweth discord.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

Proverbs 6:12

A worthless person, a man of iniquity; He walketh with a froward mouth;

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house: for he is such a son of Belial, that one cannot speak to him.

Proverbs 2:4

If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures;

2 Samuel 20:1

And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of the labouring man laboureth for him; For his mouth craveth it of him.

Proverbs 16:28

A froward man scattereth abroad strife: And a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Proverbs 16:30

He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise froward things: He that compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass.

Proverbs 19:28

A worthless witness mocketh at judgement: And the mouth of the wicked swalloweth iniquity.