Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For their minds will devise violence, and their lips will speak 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.
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
Topics
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Hagah
Shod
Saphah
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 24:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Learning From Your Father
1 Be not envious of evil men, And desire not to be with them. 2 For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak. 3 By wisdom is a house builded, And by understanding it establisheth itself.
Cross References
Psalm 10:7
Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue is perverseness and iniquity,
Job 15:35
To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.
1 Samuel 23:9
And David knoweth that against him Saul is devising the evil, and saith unto Abiathar the priest, 'Bring nigh the ephod.'
Esther 3:6-7
and it is contemptible in his eyes to put forth a hand on Mordecai by himself, for they have declared to him the people of Mordecai, and Haman seeketh to destroy all the Jews who are in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus -- the people of Mordecai.
Psalm 7:14
Lo, he travaileth with iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.
Psalm 28:3
Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.
Psalm 36:4
Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'
Psalm 64:4-6
To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.
Psalm 140:2
Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble for wars.
Proverbs 6:14
Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.
Proverbs 24:8
Whoso is devising to do evil, Him they call a master of wicked thoughts.
Isaiah 59:4
There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.
Micah 7:3
On the evil are both hands to do it well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.
Matthew 26:3-4
Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas;
Luke 23:20-21
Pilate again then -- wishing to release Jesus -- called to them,
Acts 13:10
said, 'O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?