Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
A worthless man devises mischief, and in his lips there is as a scorching fire.
New American Standard Bible
While
King James Version
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
Holman Bible
and his speech is like a scorching fire.
International Standard Version
A worthless person concocts evil gossip his lips are like a burning fire.
American Standard Version
A worthless man deviseth mischief; And in his lips there is as a scorching fire.
Amplified
A worthless man devises and digs up evil,
And the words on his lips are like a scorching fire.
Bible in Basic English
A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.
Darby Translation
A man of Belial diggeth up evil, and on his lips there is as a scorching fire.
Julia Smith Translation
A man of Belial dug up evil, and upon his lips, as a burning fire.
King James 2000
An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A man of wickedness concocts evil, and his lips [are] like a scorching fire.
Modern King James verseion
An ungodly man plots evil, and his lips are like a burning fire.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
An ungodly person stirreth up evil; and in his lips he is as a hot burning fire.
NET Bible
A wicked scoundrel digs up evil, and his slander is like a scorching fire.
New Heart English Bible
A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.
The Emphasized Bible
An abandoned man, diggeth up mischief, - and, upon his lips, as it were a fire is scorching.
Webster
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
World English Bible
A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.
Youngs Literal Translation
A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips -- as a burning fire.
Themes
Character » Of the wicked » UnGodly
Character of the wicked » UnGodly
Fire » Illustrative of » The tongue
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 16:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
26 The appetite of the laboring man labors for him, for his mouth urges him. 27 A worthless man devises mischief, and in his lips there is as a scorching fire. 28 A perverse man scatters abroad strife, and a whisperer separates chief friends.
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Cross References
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.
1 Samuel 25:17
Now therefore know and consider what thou will do, for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house. For he is such a worthless fellow that [a man] cannot speak to him.
2 Samuel 20:1
And there happened to be there a base fellow whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. And he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his te
Psalm 17:14-15
from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in [this] life, and whose belly thou fill with thy treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Psalm 52:2-4
Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 57:4
My soul is among lions. I lay among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Proverbs 2:4
if thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures,
Proverbs 6:12
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,
Proverbs 6:14
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who sows discord.
Isaiah 5:18
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope,
Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, is it not of LORD of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?