Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
A lying tongue hates those afflicted by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Holman Bible
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.
Julia Smith Translation
A tongue of falsehood will hate its crushing, and a smooth mouth will make an overthrow.
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 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
Lashown
Peh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 26:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Fools
27 Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it; and he who rolls a stone, it will turn back to him. 28 A lying tongue hates those afflicted by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
Proverbs 6:24
to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Proverbs 7:5
so that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.
Proverbs 7:21-23
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Luke 20:20-21
And they watched and sent forth spies, pretending themselves to be righteous men, so that they might seize upon a word of His, that they might deliver Him in this way to the power and authority of the governor.
John 8:40
But now you seek to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth which I have heard beside God; this Abraham did not do.
John 8:44-49
You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.
John 10:32-33
Jesus answered them, I have shown you many good works from My Father; for which of these do you stone Me?
John 15:22-24
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.