Proverbs 17:4

Modern English Version

An evildoer listens to lying lips, and a liar listens to a spiteful tongue.

Cross References

Job 16:11

God has delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

Proverbs 14:15

The simple gives credence to every word, but the prudent attends to his steps.

Proverbs 28:4

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

Isaiah 30:10

they say to the seers, “You must not see visions,” and to the prophets, “You must not prophesy to us right things; speak to us pleasant things, prophesy illusions.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and My people love to have it so. Yet what will you do in the end?

1 John 4:5

They are of the world, and therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.