Proverbs 17:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ An evil-doer gives heed to wicked lips; A liar gives ear to a tongue of desire.

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.

Proverbs 17:4 Cross References

Job 16:11

Ě

Proverbs 14:15

The simple believes every word, But the clever one watches his step.

Proverbs 28:4

Those who forsake the Torah praise the wrong, Those who guard the Torah strive with them.

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right. Speak to us what is smooth, prophesy deceits.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets have prophesied falsely, and the priests rule by their own hand, and My people have loved it so. And what are you going to do at the end of it?

1 John 4:5

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