Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor,
But through knowledge the righteous will be delivered.

King James Version

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

Holman Bible

With his mouth the ungodly destroys his neighbor,
but through knowledge the righteous are rescued.

International Standard Version

By what he says, the godless person can destroy his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous escape.

A Conservative Version

The hypocrite destroys his neighbor with his mouth, but the righteous shall be delivered through knowledge.

American Standard Version

With his mouth the godless man destroyeth his neighbor; But through knowledge shall the righteous be delivered.

Amplified


With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor,
But through knowledge and discernment the righteous will be rescued.

Bible in Basic English

With his mouth the evil man sends destruction on his neighbour; but through knowledge the upright are taken out of trouble.

Darby Translation

With his mouth a hypocrite destroyeth his neighbour; but through knowledge are the righteous delivered.

Julia Smith Translation

With the mouth the profane will destroy his neighbor: and by knowledge, shall the just one be delivered.

King James 2000

A hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

Lexham Expanded Bible

With a mouth, the godless shall destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.

Modern King James verseion

A hypocrite corrupts his neighbor with his mouth; but through knowledge the just shall be delivered.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Through the mouth of the dissembler is his neighbour destroyed; but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

NET Bible

With his speech the godless person destroys his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous will be delivered.

New Heart English Bible

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

The Emphasized Bible

With the mouth, a profane man destroyeth his neighbour, but, through knowledge, shall righteous men be delivered.

Webster

A hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

World English Bible

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

Youngs Literal Translation

With the mouth a hypocrite corrupteth his friend, And by knowledge the righteous are drawn out.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חנף 
Chaneph 
Usage: 13

with his mouth
פּה 
Peh 
Usage: 497

שׁחת 
Shachath 
Usage: 146

דּעת 
Da`ath 
Usage: 91

shall the just
צדּיק 
Tsaddiyq 
Usage: 206

Verse Info

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

8 The righteous is delivered out of the tribulation, and the wicked takes his place. 9 With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor,
But through knowledge the righteous will be delivered.
10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there are feasts.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:18-22

And the other said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art, and an angel spoke unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.

1 Kings 22:6

Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up, for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

1 Kings 22:20-23

And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said in this manner and another said in that manner.

Job 8:13

So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrite's hope shall perish.

Job 34:30

that the hypocrite not reign, lest the people be ensnared.

Psalm 55:12

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it, neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

Psalm 55:20-21

He has put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him; he has defiled his covenant.

Proverbs 2:10-16

When wisdom enters into thine heart and knowledge is sweet unto thy soul,

Proverbs 4:5-6

Get wisdom, get understanding; forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 6:23-24

For the commandment is fire, and the law is light; and reproofs of chastening are the way of life,

Matthew 7:15

Keep yourselves also from the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Matthew 15:5-14

But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, Whatever I might have helped thee with is already my offering unto God,

Mark 13:14

But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation (spoken of by Daniel the prophet) standing where it ought not, he that reads, let him understand, then let those that are in Judaea flee to the mountains;

Mark 13:22-23

for false Christs and false prophets shall rise and shall show signs and wonders to seduce, if possible, even the elect.

Acts 20:30

Also from among your own selves, men shall arise, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after themselves.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

For these false apostles are deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

Ephesians 4:13-14

until we all come forth in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the coming of age of the Christ:

2 Thessalonians 2:8-10

And then shall that Wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of his mouth and remove with the clarity of his coming:

1 Timothy 4:1-3

Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, listening to spirits of error and doctrines of demons;

2 Peter 2:1-3

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who covertly shall bring in destructive sects and shall deny the Lord that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

2 Peter 3:16-18

in almost all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, among which are some things that are hard to understand, which those that are ignorant and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

1 John 2:21

I have not written unto you as if ye ignore the truth, but as unto those that know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

1 John 2:27

But the anointing which ye have received of him abides in you, and ye do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you of all things and is truth, and is no lie; and even as it has taught you, abide ye in him.

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