Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
For their minds will devise violence, and their lips will speak mischief.
New American Standard Bible
And their lips
King James Version
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Holman Bible
and their words stir up trouble.
International Standard Version
because they plan violence, and they are always talking about trouble.
A Conservative Version
For their heart meditates oppression, and their lips talk of mischief.
American Standard Version
For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.
Amplified
For their minds plot violence,
And their lips talk of trouble [for the innocent].
Bible in Basic English
For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.
Darby Translation
for their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Julia Smith Translation
For their heart will meditate destruction, and their lips will speak labor.
King James 2000
For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Modern King James verseion
For their heart studies ruin, and their lips talk of mischief.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For their heart imagineth to do hurt, and their lips talk of mischief.
NET Bible
for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm.
New Heart English Bible
for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.
The Emphasized Bible
For, violence, their heart muttereth, and, mischief, their lips do speak.
Webster
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
World English Bible
for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.
Youngs Literal Translation
For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.
Themes
Company » Who not to have company with
Destruction » Who studies destruction
Evil » Speech evil speaking » General references to
Heart » The unregenerate » Is malicious
character of the unrenewed Heart » Studieth destruction
Mischief » Who speaks of mischief
Speaking, evil » General references to
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 24:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Learning From Your Father
1 Do not envy men of evil, and do not desire to be with them. 2 For their minds will devise violence, and their lips will speak mischief. 3 By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established.
Cross References
Psalm 10:7
His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.
Job 15:35
[They] conceive trouble and bring forth mischief, and their womb prepares deceit."
1 Samuel 23:9
When David learned that Saul [was] plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here."
Esther 3:6-7
But {he considered it beneath him} to lay hands on Mordecai only, for they told him of Mordecai's people, and Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who [were] in the kingdom of Ahasuerus.
Psalm 7:14
See, he travails with evil. He is pregnant with trouble, and he gives birth to deception.
Psalm 28:3
Do not drag me away with [the] wicked or with [the] workers of evil, [who] speak of peace with their neighbors, while evil [is] in their heart.
Psalm 36:4
He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way [that is] not good. He does not reject evil.
Psalm 64:4-6
to shoot from their hiding places [at the] blameless. Suddenly they shoot [at] him and do not fear.
Psalm 140:2
who plan evil [things] in [their] heart. They stir up wars continually.
Proverbs 6:14
perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord.
Proverbs 24:8
He who plans to do evil for himself, they will call [him] "master of mischief."
Isaiah 59:4
There is nobody {who pleads with} justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity;
Micah 7:3
Their hands [are] upon evil, to do [it] well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great [man] utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave [it] together.
Matthew 26:3-4
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas,
Luke 23:20-21
And Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed [them] again,
Acts 13:10
[and] said, "O [you who are] full of all deceit and of all unscrupulousness, [you] son of the devil, [you] enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord!