Proverbs 16:27

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

A worthless man deviseth mischief: And in his lips there is as a scorching fire.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

And there happened to be there a man of Belial, 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.

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.

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of the labouring man laboureth for him; For his mouth craveth it of him.

Proverbs 16:28

A froward man scattereth abroad strife: And a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Proverbs 16:30

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

Proverbs 19:28

A worthless witness mocketh at judgement: And the mouth of the wicked swalloweth iniquity.

Proverbs 2:4

If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures;

Proverbs 6:12

A worthless person, a man of iniquity; He walketh with a froward mouth;

Proverbs 6:14

Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth evil continually; He soweth discord.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

Habakkuk 2:13

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

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.

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 son of Belial, that one cannot speak to him.