Proverbs 16:27

A Conservative Version

A worthless man devises mischief, and in his lips there is as a scorching fire.

Cross References

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

Proverbs 6:14

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who sows discord.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope,

Proverbs 6:12

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions. I lay among those who 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 will do, for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house. For he is such a worthless fellow that [a man] cannot speak to him.

Proverbs 2:4

if thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures,

2 Samuel 20:1

And there happened to be there a base fellow 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 te

Habakkuk 2:13

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

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of the laboring man labors for him, for his mouth urges him.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man scatters abroad strife, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

Proverbs 16:30

He who shuts his eyes devises perverse things. He who moves his lips brings evil to pass.

Proverbs 19:28

A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked swallows iniquity.