Proverbs 16:27

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The wicked man diggeth evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.

Cross References

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body, and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.

Proverbs 6:14

With a wicked heart he deviseth evil, and at all times he soweth discord.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart.

Proverbs 6:12

A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,

Psalm 57:4

The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

1 Samuel 25:17

Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do: for evil is determined against thy husband, and against thy house. And he is a son of Belial, so that no man can speak to him.

Proverbs 2:4

If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:

2 Samuel 20:1

And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Seba, the son of Bochri, a man of Jemini. And he sounded the trumpet, and said: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai. Return to thy dwellings, O Israel.

Habakkuk 2:13

Are not these things from the Lord of hosts? for the people shall labour in a great fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint.

Proverbs 16:26

The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man stirreth up quarrels: and one full of words separateth princes.

Proverbs 16:30

He that with fixed eyes deviseth wicked things, biting his lips, bringeth: evil to pass.

Proverbs 19:28

An unjust witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.