Proverbs 16:27

The Message

Mean people spread mean gossip; their words smart and burn.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

Just then a good-for-nothing named Sheba son of Bicri the Benjaminite blew a blast on the ram’s horn trumpet, calling out, We’ve got nothing to do with David, there’s no future for us with the son of Jesse! Let’s get out of here, Israel—head for your tents!

Psalm 57:4

I find myself in a pride of lions who are wild for a taste of human flesh; Their teeth are lances and arrows, their tongues are sharp daggers.

Proverbs 16:26

Appetite is an incentive to work; hunger makes you work all the harder.

Proverbs 16:28

Troublemakers start fights; gossips break up friendships.

Proverbs 16:30

A shifty eye betrays an evil intention; a clenched jaw signals trouble ahead.

Proverbs 19:28

An unprincipled witness desecrates justice; the mouths of the wicked spew malice.

Proverbs 6:12

Swindlers and scoundrels talk out of both sides of their mouths. They wink at each other, they shuffle their feet, they cross their fingers behind their backs. Their perverse minds are always cooking up something nasty, always stirring up trouble. Catastrophe is just around the corner for them, a total wreck, their lives ruined beyond repair.

Isaiah 5:18

Doom to you who use lies to sell evil, who haul sin to market by the truckload, Who say, “What’s God waiting for? Let him get a move on so we can see it. Whatever The Holy of Israel has cooked up, we’d like to check it out.”