Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

A tongue of falsehood will hate its crushing, and a smooth mouth will make an overthrow.

New American Standard Bible

A lying tongue hates those it crushes,
And a flattering mouth works ruin.

King James Version

A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

Holman Bible

A lying tongue hates those it crushes,
and a flattering mouth causes ruin.


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International Standard Version

A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.

A Conservative Version

A lying tongue hates those whom it has wounded, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

American Standard Version

A lying tongue hateth those whom it hath wounded; And a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

Amplified


A lying tongue hates those it wounds and crushes,
And a flattering mouth works ruin.

Bible in Basic English

A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling.

Darby Translation

A lying tongue hateth those that are injured by it, and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

King James 2000

A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Lexham Expanded Bible

A tongue of deceit hates its victim, and a flattering mouth makes ruin.

Modern King James verseion

A lying tongue hates those afflicted by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

A dissembling tongue hateth one that rebuketh him; and a flattering mouth worketh mischief.

NET Bible

A lying tongue hates those crushed by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

New Heart English Bible

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

The Emphasized Bible

A false tongue, hateth them who are crushed by it, and, a flattering mouth, worketh occasion of stumbling.

Webster

A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

World English Bible

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Youngs Literal Translation

A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
A lying
שׁקר 
Sheqer 
Usage: 113

לשׁנה לשׁן לשׁון 
Lashown 
Usage: 116

שׂנא 
Sane' 
Usage: 145

דּך 
Dak 
Usage: 4

by it and a flattering
חלק 
Chalaq 
Usage: 4

Context Readings

All About Fools

27 He digging a pit shall fall into it: and he rolling a stone it shall turn back upon him. 28 A tongue of falsehood will hate its crushing, and a smooth mouth will make an overthrow.



Cross References

Proverbs 29:5

A man making smooth against his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

Proverbs 6:24

To watch thee from the woman of evil, from the smoothness of the strange tongue.

Proverbs 7:5

To watch thyself from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings.

Proverbs 7:21-23

With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away.

Luke 20:20-21

And having observed narrowly, they sent liers-in-wait, feigning themselves to be just, that they might seize upon his word, to deliver him to the beginning and authority of the leader.

John 8:40

And now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham.

John 8:44-49

Ye are of your father the devil, and the eager desires of your father will ye do. He was slaying men from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he would speak a lie, he speaks of his own things; for he is a liar, and the father of him.

John 10:32-33

Jesus Answered them, Many good works I shewed you from my Father; for which of these works do ye stone me

John 15:22-24

If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not sin and now they have no pretext for their sin.

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