Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
By the blessing of the upright is a city exalted, And by the mouth of the wicked thrown down.
New American Standard Bible
But by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.
King James Version
By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Holman Bible
but it is torn down by the mouth of the wicked.
International Standard Version
Through the blessing of the righteous a city is built up, but what the wicked say tears it down.
A Conservative Version
By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
American Standard Version
By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted; But it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Amplified
By the blessing [of the influence] of the upright the city is exalted,
But by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.
Bible in Basic English
By the blessing of the upright man the town is made great, but it is overturned by the mouth of the evil-doer.
Darby Translation
By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted; but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Julia Smith Translation
By the blessing of the upright the city shall be exalted: and by the mouth of the unjust it shall be overthrown.
King James 2000
By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Lexham Expanded Bible
By the blessing of the upright, a city will be exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked, it will be overthrown.
Modern King James verseion
By the blessing of the upright the city is lifted up, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When the just are in wealth, the city prospereth; but when the ungodly have the rule, it decayeth.
NET Bible
A city is exalted by the blessing provided from the upright, but it is destroyed by the counsel of the wicked.
New Heart English Bible
By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
The Emphasized Bible
When the upright are blessed, exalted is the city, but, by the mouth of the lawless, it is overthrown.
Webster
By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
World English Bible
By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 11:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
10 In the good of the righteous a city exulteth, And in the destruction of the wicked is singing. 11 By the blessing of the upright is a city exalted, And by the mouth of the wicked thrown down. 12 Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:8
Men of scorning ensnare a city, And the wise turn back anger.
Genesis 41:38-42
and Pharaoh saith unto his servants, 'Do we find like this, a man in whom the spirit of God is?'
Genesis 45:8
and now, ye -- ye have not sent me hither, but God, and He doth set me for a father to Pharaoh, and for lord to all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
2 Samuel 20:1
And there hath been called there a man of worthlessness, and his name is Sheba, son of Bichri, a Benjamite, and he bloweth with a trumpet, and saith, 'We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel.'
2 Chronicles 32:20-22
And Hezekiah the king prayeth, and Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet, concerning this, and they cry to the heavens,
Esther 3:8-15
And Haman saith to the king Ahasuerus, 'There is one people scattered and separated among the peoples, in all provinces of thy kingdom, and their laws are diverse from all people, and the laws of the king they are not doing, and for the king it is not profitable to suffer them;
Esther 9:1-16
And in the twelfth month -- it is the month of Adar -- on the thirteenth day of it, in which the word of the king, even his law, hath come to be done, in the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to rule over them, and it is turned that the Jews rule over those hating them --
Job 22:30
He delivereth the not innocent, Yea, he hath been delivered By the cleanness of thy hands.
Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalteth a nation, And the goodliness of peoples is a sin-offering.
Ecclesiastes 9:15
and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man!
James 3:6
and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.