Proverbs 6:12 - The Scriptures 1998

¹² A man of Beliyaʽ

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² A naughty person, a wicked man, Walketh with a froward mouth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² A worthless person, a wicked man, is he who goes about with a perverse (contrary, wayward) mouth.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;

Common English Bible

¹² Worthless people and guilty people go around with crooked talk.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth;

Proverbs 6:12 Cross References

Psalm 10:3

For the wrongdoer boasted of his cravings; And the greedy one cursed and despised יהוה.

Psalm 10:7

His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; Under his tongue is trouble and wickedness.

Psalm 101:3

I set no matter of Beliyaʽ

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; He has ceased to be wise, to do good.

Psalm 59:7

See, they belch out with their mouth, Swords are in their lips, For who is listening?

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing, But the mouth of the wrong speaks perverseness.

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the straight ones delivers them, But the treacherous are caught by greed.

Proverbs 16:27

A man of Beliyaʽ

Proverbs 16:30

Winking with his eye to plot perversity, Moving his lips he shall bring about evil.

Proverbs 17:4

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

Proverbs 2:12

To deliver you from the evil way, From the man who speaks perversities,

Proverbs 3:32

For the perverse one is an abomination to יהוה, And His secret counsel is with the straight.

Proverbs 4:24

Turn away from you a crooked mouth, And put perverse lips far from you.

Proverbs 6:14

Perverseness is in his heart, Plotting evil at all times, He sends out strife.

Proverbs 8:13

“The fear of יהוה  is to hate evil. I have hated pride and arrogance, And the evil way, And the perverse mouth.

Jeremiah 24:2

One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe. And the other basket had very spoilt figs which could not be eaten, they were so spoilt.”

Matthew 12:34

“Brood of adders! How are you able to speak what is good – being wicked? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

Acts 20:30

“Also from among yourselves men shall arise, speaking distorted teachings, to draw away the taught ones after themselves.

1 Timothy 5:13

Moreover, they learn to be idle, going about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, speaking what is improper.

James 1:21

Therefore put away all filthiness and overflow of evil, and receive with meekness the implanted Word,which is able to save your lives.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Among our members the tongue is set, the one defiling the entire body, and setting on fire the wheel of life, and it is set on fire by Gehenna.

1 Samuel 17:28

And Eliyaḇ