Proverbs 16:27 - Easy To Read Version

²⁷ A worthless person plans bad things to do. His advice destroys like fire.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ An ungodly man diggeth up evil: And in his lips there is as a burning fire.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ A worthless man devises and digs up mischief, and in his lips there is as a scorching fire.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ A worthless man deviseth mischief; And in his lips there is as a scorching fire.

Common English Bible

²⁷ Worthless people dig up trouble; their lips are like a scorching fire.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ The impious man digs up evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ The wicked man diggeth evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.

Proverbs 16:27 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 20:1

At that place, there was a man named Sheba son of Bicri. Sheba was a good-for-nothing troublemaker from the family group of Benjamin. Sheba blew a trumpet {to gather the people together}. Then he said,

Psalm 57:4

My life is in danger.\par My enemies are all around me.\par They are like man-eating lions,\par with teeth as sharp as spears\par and arrows,\par and tongues as sharp as a sword.\par

Proverbs 16:26

A worker’s appetite keeps him working. His hunger makes him work so that he can eat.

Proverbs 16:28

A troublemaker is always causing problems. That person spreads gossip and causes trouble between close friends.

Proverbs 16:30

That person winks his eye while planning something destructive. He smiles while he is planning to hurt his neighbor.

Proverbs 19:28

A lying witness makes justice nothing but a joke! The things evil people say bring more evil.

Proverbs 2:4

Look for wisdom like silver. Look for it like a hidden treasure.

Proverbs 6:12

An evil and worthless person tells lies and says bad things.

Proverbs 6:14

That person is a troublemaker. He is always planning to do something bad. He makes trouble everywhere.

Isaiah 5:18

Look at those people! They pull their guilt and sins behind them like people pull wagons with ropes. {\cf2\super [54]}

Habakkuk 2:13

The Lord All-Powerful has decided that a fire will destroy everything that those people worked to build. All their work will be for nothing.

James 3:6

The tongue is like a fire. It is a world of evil among the parts of our body. How? The tongue spreads its evil through our whole body. It starts a fire that influences all of life. The tongue gets this fire from hell.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now think about it and decide what you can do. Nabal was foolish to say the things he did! Terrible trouble is coming to our master (Nabal) and all his family.”