Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

The lips of the foolish one will come into contention, and his mouth will call for blows.

New American Standard Bible

A fool’s lips bring strife,
And his mouth calls for blows.

King James Version

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

Holman Bible

A fool’s lips lead to strife,
and his mouth provokes a beating.

International Standard Version

A fool's words bring strife, and his mouth invites fighting.

A Conservative Version

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
A fool's
כּסיל 
K@ciyl 
Usage: 70

שׂפת שׂפה 
Saphah 
Usage: 176


come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

רב ריב 
Riyb 
Usage: 60

קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 736

References

Easton

Context Readings

How Fools Live

5 To lift up the face of the unjust one is not good; to turn aside the just one in judgment. 6 The lips of the foolish one will come into contention, and his mouth will call for blows. 7 The mouth of the foolish is destruction to him, and his lips the snare of his soul.

Cross References

Proverbs 12:16

The foolish one in the day shall make known his anger: but the prudent one covered dishonor.

Proverbs 13:10

Only by pride contention will be given: but with those being advised, wisdom.

Proverbs 14:3

In the month of the foolish one a rod of pride: and the lips of the wise shall watch them.

Proverbs 14:16

The wise one feared and departed from evil: and the foolish overflowing, and being confident .

Proverbs 16:27-28

A man of Belial dug up evil, and upon his lips, as a burning fire.

Proverbs 17:14

The causing water to break forth. is the beginning of strife: cast off contention before being irritated.

Proverbs 19:19

The stern in wrath lifted up a fine: for if thou shalt deliver and thou shalt yet add.

Proverbs 19:29

Judgment was prepared for those mocking, and blows for the back of the foolish.

Proverbs 20:3

Honor to a man ceasing from strife: and every foolish one will be irritated.

Proverbs 22:24-25

Thou shalt not be companion of the possessor of anger, and with the man of wrath thou shalt not go:

Proverbs 25:24

Good to dwell upon a corner of the roof rather than with a woman of strifes and a house of community.

Proverbs 27:3

A stone is heavy and sand a burden, and the wrath of the foolish one heavy more than they two.

Proverbs 29:9

A wise man contending with a foolish man and raging and laughing, and no rest.

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