Proverbs 16:27

New English Translation

A wicked scoundrel digs up evil, and his slander is like a scorching fire.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

Now a wicked man named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, happened to be there. He blew the trumpet and said, “We have no share in David; we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse! Every man go home, O Israel!”

Psalm 57:4

I am surrounded by lions; I lie down among those who want to devour me; men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are a sharp sword.

Proverbs 16:26

A laborer’s appetite works on his behalf, for his hunger urges him to work.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse person spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends.

Proverbs 16:30

The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips brings about evil.

Proverbs 19:28

A crooked witness scorns justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.

Proverbs 2:4

if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,

Proverbs 6:12

A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;

Proverbs 6:14

he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times.

Isaiah 5:18

Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

Habakkuk 2:13

Be sure of this! The Lord who commands armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence – and is set on fire by hell.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now be aware of this, and see what you can do. For disaster has been planned for our lord and his entire household. He is such a wicked person that no one tells him anything!”