Proverbs 24:2 - The Scriptures 2009

² For their heart plots to ravage, And their lips talk of trouble.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² For their heart studieth destruction, And their lips talk of mischief.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For their minds plot oppression and devise violence, and their lips talk of causing trouble and vexation.

American Standard Version (1901)

² For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.

Common English Bible

² Their hearts are focused on violence, and their lips speak of trouble.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² For their mind meditates on robberies, and their lips speak deceptions.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Because their mind studieth robberies, and their lips speak deceits.

Proverbs 24:2 Cross References

Job 15:35

They conceive trouble and bring forth wickedness, even their womb prepares deception.”

Psalm 10:7

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

Psalm 140:2

Who have devised evils in their hearts; They stir up conflicts all day long.

Psalm 28:3

Do not draw me away with the wrong And with the workers of wickedness, Who speak peace to their neighbours, But evil is in their hearts.

Psalm 36:4

He plots wickedness on his bed; He sets himself in a way that is not good; He does not despise evil.

Psalm 38:12

And those seeking my life lay a snare; And those seeking my evil have spoken of destruction, And utter deceit all day long.

Psalm 7:14

See, he who is bound with wickedness, And has conceived trouble and brought forth falsehood,

Proverbs 1:10

My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in.

Proverbs 24:8

He who plots to do evil Is called a master of evil plots.

Proverbs 6:14

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

Proverbs 6:18

A heart devising wicked schemes, Feet quick to run to evil,

Isaiah 30:12

Therefore thus said the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them,

Isaiah 59:4

No one calls for righteousness, and no one pleads for truth. They trust in emptiness and speak worthlessness; they conceive trouble and bring forth wickedness.

Jeremiah 22:17

“But your eyes and your heart are only upon your own greedy gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and on doing violence.”

Micah 7:3

Both hands are on the evil, to do it well. The prince asks for gifts, the judge seeks a bribe, and the great man speaks the desire of his being. And they weave it together.

Acts 13:10

and said, “O son of the devil, filled with all deceit and all recklessness, you enemy of all righteousness, shall you not cease perverting the straight ways of יהוה?

1 Samuel 23:9

And Dawiḏ knew that Sha’ul was plotting evil against him, and said to Eḇyathar the priest, “Bring the shoulder garment here.”