Proverbs 16:27

American Standard Version (1901)

A worthless man deviseth 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 iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

Proverbs 6:14

In whose heart is perverseness, Who deviseth evil continually, Who soweth discord.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe unto them that 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 that walketh with a perverse mouth;

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions; I lie among them that 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 wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house: for he is such a worthless fellow, that one cannot speak to him.

Proverbs 2:4

If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid 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 tents, O Israel.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not of Jehovah 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 laboreth for him; For his mouth urgeth him thereto.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man scattereth abroad strife; And a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Proverbs 16:30

He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise perverse things: He that compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass.

Proverbs 19:28

A worthless witness mocketh at justice; And the mouth of the wicked swalloweth iniquity.