Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

New American Standard Bible

A worthless person, a wicked man,
Is the one who walks with a perverse mouth,

King James Version

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

Holman Bible

A worthless person, a wicked man
goes around speaking dishonestly,

International Standard Version

A worthless man, a wicked man, goes around with devious speech,

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;

Darby Translation

A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּליּעל 
B@liya`al 
Usage: 27

אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

man
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

with a froward
עקּשׁוּת 
`iqq@shuwth 
Usage: 2

References

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

Against Worthlessness

11 so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man. 12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth, 13 who winks with his eyes, who speaks with his feet, who makes signs with his fingers,

Cross References

Proverbs 4:24

Put away from thee a wayward mouth, and put perverse lips far from thee.

1 Samuel 17:28

And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why have thou come down? And with whom have thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and t

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked man boasts of his heart's desire. And the greedy man renounces, [yea], despises LORD.

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 iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise [and] to do good.

Psalm 52:2-4

Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they belch out with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, for [they say], Who hears?

Psalm 73:8-9

They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression. They speak loftily.

Proverbs 2:12

to deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

Proverbs 6:14

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who sows discord.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of LORD is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity.

Proverbs 16:27

A worthless man devises mischief, and in his lips there is as a scorching fire.

Proverbs 17:4

An evil-doer gives heed to wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

Jeremiah 24:2

One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe, and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten they were so bad.

Jeremiah 24:8-10

And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten they are so bad, surely thus says LORD: So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his rulers, and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land

Matthew 12:34

Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Acts 20:30

And from you yourselves men will rise up, speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

1 Timothy 5:13

And also at the same time they learn to be idle, roving the houses, and not only idle, but also babbling and meddlesome, speaking things that they ought not.

Titus 1:10-11

For there are also many insubordinate men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those from circumcision,

James 1:21

Therefore having put off all filthiness and profusion of evil, receive with mildness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

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