Proverbs 16:28 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

²⁸ A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ A froward man soweth strife: And a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. [Prov. 17:9.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ A perverse man scattereth abroad strife; And a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Common English Bible

²⁸ Destructive people produce conflict; gossips alienate close friends.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ A perverse man stirs up lawsuits. And one who is verbose divides leaders.

Proverbs 16:28 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 15:18

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

Proverbs 16:27

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

Proverbs 16:29

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 17:9

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

Proverbs 18:6

A fool's lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person's innermost parts.

Proverbs 29:22

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

Proverbs 30:33

For as the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood; so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife.*

Proverbs 6:14

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

Proverbs 6:19

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Romans 1:29

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

1 Samuel 24:9

David said to Sha'ul, Why listen you to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your hurt?