Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
An ungodly person stirreth up evil; and in his lips he is as a hot burning 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.
A Conservative Version
A worthless man devises mischief, and in his lips there is as a scorching 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.
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 A troublous soul disquieteth herself; for her own mouth hath brought her thereto. 27 An ungodly person stirreth up evil; and in his lips he is as a hot burning fire. 28 A froward body causeth strife; and he that is a babble of his tongue, maketh division among princes.
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Cross References
James 3:6
and the tongue is fire, and a world of wickedness. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth afire all that we have of nature, and is itself set afire, even of hell.
1 Samuel 25:17
Now take heed and see what thou hast to do, for it is concluded to do mischief unto our master and to all his household. And he is ungracious to speak to."
2 Samuel 20:1
And there happened to be an unthrifty fellow named Sheba, the son of Bichri a man of Benjamin which blew a trumpet and said, "We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Jesse, O Israel.
Psalm 17:14-15
From the men of thy hand, O LORD, from the men, I say, and from the evil world, which have their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure.
Psalm 52:2-4
Thy tongue imagineth wickedness, and with lies it cutteth like a sharp razor.
Psalm 57:4
I lie with my soul among the cruel lions; even among the children of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Proverbs 2:4
If thou seekest after her as after money, and diggest for her as for treasures;
Proverbs 6:12
An ungodly person, a wicked man goeth with a froward mouth,
Proverbs 6:14
he is ever imagining mischief and frowardness in his heart, and causeth discord.
Isaiah 5:18
Woe be unto vain persons, that draw wickedness unto them with cords of vanity; and sin, as it were with a cart rope.
Habakkuk 2:13
Shall not the LORD of Hosts bring this to pass, that the laborers of the people shall be burnt with a great fire, and that the thing whereupon the people have wearied themselves, shall be lost?