Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted; but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
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.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
By the blessing of the upright is a city exalted, And by the mouth of the wicked thrown down.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 11:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth; and when the wicked perish, there is shouting. 11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted; but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. 12 He that despiseth his neighbour is void of heart; but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:8
Scornful men set the city in a flame; but the wise turn away anger.
Genesis 41:38-42
And Pharaoh said to his bondmen, Shall we find one as this, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
Genesis 45:8
And now it was not you that sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and governor over all the land of Egypt.
2 Samuel 20:1
And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel.
2 Chronicles 32:20-22
And because of this, king Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz prayed and cried to heaven.
Esther 3:8-15
And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from those of every people, and they keep not the king's laws; and it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Esther 9:1-16
And in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day thereof, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them (but it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had power over them that hated them),
Job 22:30
Even him that is not innocent shall he deliver; yea, he shall be delivered by the pureness of thy hands.
Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to peoples.
Ecclesiastes 9:15
and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that poor man.
James 3:6
and the tongue is fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.