Parallel Verses
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.
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 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 goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; and when the wicked are destroyed, there is singing. 11 By the blessing of the upright the city is lifted up, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. 12 One despising his friend lacks heart, but a man of understanding remains silent.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:8
Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but the wise turn away wrath.
Genesis 41:38-42
And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find any man like this, in whom the Spirit of God is?
Genesis 45:8
And now you did not send me here, but God. And He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler over all the land of Egypt.
2 Samuel 20:1
And there happened to be there a man of Belial named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. And he blew a ram's horn and said, We have no part in David, neither do we have any inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, O, Israel!
2 Chronicles 32:20-22
And for this reason Hezekiah the king, 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 certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people, in all the provinces of your kingdom. And their laws are different from all people, neither do they keep the king's laws. And it is not for the king's gain to allow them to live.
Esther 9:1-16
And in the twelfth month, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and his order came to be done, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them; though it was turned around, so that the Jews had rule over the ones who hated them.
Job 22:30
He shall deliver one not innocent, and will deliver by the pureness of your hands.
Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness lifts up a nation, but sin is a shame to any people.
Ecclesiastes 9:15
And a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that poor man.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell.