Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
The lips of a fool will bring strife, and his mouth calls out for a flogging.
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.
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.
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 Being partial [to] faces of evil [is] not good, [nor] to subvert the righteous at the judgment. 6 The lips of a fool will bring strife, and his mouth calls out for a flogging. 7 The mouth of a fool [is] ruin to him, and his lips [are] a snare to his soul.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 12:16
As for a fool, {on that very day} he makes his anger known, but he who ignores an insult [is] prudent.
Proverbs 13:10
Only by insolence is strife set up, and wisdom [is] with those who take advice.
Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of a fool is the rod of pride, but the lips of the wise preserve them.
Proverbs 14:16
The wise is cautious and turns from evil, but the fool throws off restraint and is confident.
Proverbs 16:27-28
A man of wickedness concocts evil, and his lips [are] like a scorching fire.
Proverbs 17:14
[Like] the release of water [is] the beginning of strife; before it breaks out, stop the quarrel.
Proverbs 19:19
A hot-tempered person pays a penalty; if you rescue [him], you will do [it] yet again.
Proverbs 19:29
Judgments are prepared for the scoffers, and flogging for the back of fools.
Proverbs 20:3
[It is] honorable for the man to refrain from strife, but every fool will be quick to quarrel.
Proverbs 22:24-25
Do not befriend an owner of {anger}, and with a man of wrath you shall not associate;
Proverbs 25:24
Better to live upon the corner of a roof than [with] a woman of contention and [in a] shared house.
Proverbs 27:3
Heavy [is] a stone and weighty [is] sand, but [the] provocation of a fool [is] heavier than both of them.
Proverbs 29:9
[If] a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, then there is rankling and ridicule, but there is no relief.