Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes.
New American Standard Bible
And his mouth calls for
King James Version
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Holman Bible
and his mouth provokes a beating.
International Standard Version
A fool's words bring strife, and his mouth invites fighting.
American Standard Version
A fool's lips enter into contention, And his mouth calleth for stripes.
Amplified
A fool’s lips bring contention and strife,
And his mouth invites a beating.
Bible in Basic English
A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.
Darby Translation
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for stripes.
Julia Smith Translation
The lips of the foolish one will come into contention, and his mouth will call for blows.
King James 2000
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for blows.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The lips of a fool will bring strife, and his mouth calls out for a flogging.
Modern King James verseion
A fool's lips enter into argument, and his mouth calls for strokes.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A fool's lips are ever brawling, and his mouth provoketh unto battle.
NET Bible
The lips of a fool enter into strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.
New Heart English Bible
A fool's lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.
The Emphasized Bible
the lips of a dullard, enter into contention, and his mouth, for blows, crieth out.
Webster
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
World English Bible
A fool's lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.
Youngs Literal Translation
The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.
Themes
Contention » Whose lips enter into contention
Contentiousness » The contentious spirit
Dissention » The contentious spirit
Fools » Characteristics of » Contentiousness
Topics
Interlinear
Saphah
Peh
References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 18:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
How Fools Live
5 To respect the person of a wicked man is not good, [nor] to turn aside a righteous man in judgment. 6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. 7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 12:16
A fool's vexation is instantly known, but a prudent man conceals shame.
Proverbs 13:10
Through pride a vain man causes contention, but wisdom is with the well-advised.
Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Proverbs 14:16
A wise man fears, and departs from evil, but the fool bears himself insolently, and is confident.
Proverbs 16:27-28
A worthless man devises mischief, and in his lips there is as a scorching fire.
Proverbs 17:14
The beginning of strife is [like] letting out water. Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.
Proverbs 19:19
A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty, for if thou deliver [him], thou must do it yet again.
Proverbs 19:29
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and stripes for the back of fools.
Proverbs 20:3
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarrelling.
Proverbs 22:24-25
Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man,
Proverbs 25:24
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty, but a fool's vexation is heavier than both.
Proverbs 29:9
If a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man, whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.