Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;
New American Standard Bible
Is the one who walks with a
King James Version
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
Holman Bible
goes around speaking dishonestly,
International Standard Version
A worthless man, a wicked man, goes around with devious speech,
A Conservative Version
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,
American Standard Version
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;
Amplified
A worthless person, a wicked man,
Is one who walks with a perverse (corrupt, vulgar) mouth.
Bible in Basic English
A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;
Julia Smith Translation
A man of Belial, a man of iniquity, goes with perverseness of mouth.
King James 2000
A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A worthless man, an evil man, goes around with {deceitful speech}.
Modern King James verseion
A worthless person, a wicked man walks with a crooked mouth,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
An ungodly person, a wicked man goeth with a froward mouth,
NET Bible
A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;
New Heart English Bible
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
The Emphasized Bible
An abandoned man, a man of iniquity, is he who - goeth on in perversity of mouth;
Webster
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
World English Bible
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
Youngs Literal Translation
A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth,
Interlinear
References
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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Against Worthlessness
11 So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man. 12 A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth; 13 he winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 4:24
Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, and corrupt lips put far from thee.
1 Samuel 17:28
And Eliab, his eldest brother, heard while he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why art thou come down? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thy heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
Psalm 10:3
For the wicked boasteth of his soul's desire, and he blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah.
Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Psalm 36:3
The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, to do good.
Psalm 52:2-4
Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who say they doth hear?
Psalm 73:8-9
They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:
Proverbs 2:12
To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the man that speaketh froward things;
Proverbs 6:14
deceits are in his heart; he deviseth mischief at all times, he soweth discords.
Proverbs 8:13
The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.
Proverbs 11:6
The righteousness of the upright delivereth them; but the treacherous are taken in their own craving.
Proverbs 16:27
A man of Belial diggeth up evil, and on his lips there is as a scorching fire.
Proverbs 17:4
The evil-doer giveth heed to iniquitous lips; the liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.
Jeremiah 24:2
One basket had very good figs, like the figs first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten for badness.
Jeremiah 24:8-10
And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten for badness, surely, thus saith Jehovah: So will I make Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt.
Matthew 12:34
Offspring of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being wicked? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Acts 20:30
and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.
1 Timothy 5:13
And, at the same time, they learn also to be idle, going about to people's houses; and not only idle, but also gossipers and meddlers, speaking things not becoming.
Titus 1:10-11
For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds, specially those of the circumcision,
James 1:21
Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
James 3:6
and the tongue is fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.