Parallel Verses

King James 2000

A worthless person, a wicked man, 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,

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;

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.

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 shall your poverty come upon you like a vagabond, and your want like an armed man. 12 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth. 13 He winks with his eyes, he signals with his feet, he motions with his fingers;


Cross References

Proverbs 4:24

Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.

1 Samuel 17:28

And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why came you down here? and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the insolence of your heart; for you are come down that you might see the battle.

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors.

Psalm 10:7

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

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

Your tongue devises evil; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they bellow out with their mouths: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, does hear?

Psalm 73:8-9

They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

Proverbs 2:12

To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks perverse things;

Proverbs 6:14

Perversity is in his heart, he devises evil continually; he sows discord.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the 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 transgressors shall be taken in their own lust.

Proverbs 16:27

An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

Proverbs 17:4

A wicked doer gives heed to false lips; and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

Jeremiah 24:2

One basket had very good figs, even 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 the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the rest of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

Matthew 12:34

O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Acts 20:30

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

1 Timothy 5:13

And at the same time they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but gossips also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Titus 1:10-11

For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision:

James 1:21

Therefore put away all filthiness and extreme wickedness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

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