Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.
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.
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.
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 Acceptance of the face of the wicked is not good, To turn aside the righteous in judgment. 6 The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth. 7 The mouth of a fool is ruin to him, And his lips are the snare of his soul.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 12:16
The fool -- in a day is his anger known, And the prudent is covering shame.
Proverbs 13:10
A vain man through pride causeth debate, And with the counselled is wisdom.
Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.
Proverbs 14:16
The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.
Proverbs 16:27-28
A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips -- as a burning fire.
Proverbs 17:14
The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.
Proverbs 19:19
A man of great wrath is bearing punishment, For, if thou dost deliver, yet again thou dost add.
Proverbs 19:29
Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools!
Proverbs 20:3
An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.
Proverbs 22:24-25
Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,
Proverbs 25:24
Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than with a woman of contentions, and a house of company.
Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy, and the sand is heavy, And the anger of a fool Is heavier than they both.
Proverbs 29:9
A wise man is judged by the foolish man, And he hath been angry, And he hath laughed, and there is no rest.