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
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.
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.
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 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.
Phrases
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.