Proverbs 17:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ An evil-doer giveth heed to wicked lips; And a liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.

More versions

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 delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.

Proverbs 14:15

The simple believeth every word: But the prudent man looketh well to his going.

Proverbs 28:4

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: But such as keep the law contend with them.

Isaiah 30:10

which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

1 John 4:5

They are of the world: therefore speak they as of the world, and the world heareth them.