Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
An ungodly person, a wicked man goeth with a froward 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;
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,
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
Easton
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Against Worthlessness
11 so shall poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed man. 12 An ungodly person, a wicked man goeth with a froward mouth, 13 he winketh with his eyes, he tokeneth with his feet, he pointeth with his fingers,
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 4:24
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and let the lips of slander be far from thee.
1 Samuel 17:28
And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the man and was angry with David and said, "Why camest thou away, and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride and the malice of thine heart, that thou art come to see the battle."
Psalm 10:3
For the ungodly hath made boast of his own heart's desire, and speaketh good of the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit and fraud; under his tongue is travail and sorrow.
Psalm 36:3
The words of his mouth are unrighteous and full of deceit; he hath left off to behave himself wisely, and to do good.
Psalm 52:2-4
Thy tongue imagineth wickedness, and with lies it cutteth like a sharp razor.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they speak against me with their mouth, and swords are under their lips, for who reproveth them?
Psalm 73:8-9
They corrupt others, and speak blasphemies maliciously; proud and presumptuous are their words.
Proverbs 2:12
That thou mayest be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh froward things;
Proverbs 6:14
he is ever imagining mischief and frowardness in his heart, and causeth discord.
Proverbs 8:13
With me is the fear of the LORD, and the eschewing of evil. As for pride, disdain, and evil way, and a mouth that speaketh wicked things, I utterly abhor them.
Proverbs 11:6
The righteousness of the just shall deliver them; but the despisers shall be taken in their own ungodliness.
Proverbs 16:27
An ungodly person stirreth up evil; and in his lips he is as a hot burning fire.
Proverbs 17:4
A wicked body giveth audience to false lips; and a dissembling person giveth ear to a deceitful tongue.
Jeremiah 24:2
In the one mound were very good figs, even like as those that be first ripe. In the other mound were very naughty figs, which might not be eaten they were so evil.
Jeremiah 24:8-10
And like as thou knowest the naughty figs, which may not be eaten they are so evil: Even so will I, sayeth the LORD, let Zedekiah the king of Judah - yea, and all his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem that remain over in this land, and them also that dwell in Egypt - to be vexed and plagued in all kingdoms and lands.
Matthew 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can ye say well, when ye yourselves are evil? For of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
Acts 20:30
Moreover, of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things, to draw disciples after them.
1 Timothy 5:13
And also they learn to go from house to house idle, yea not idle only, but also trifling and busybodies, speaking things which are not comely.
Titus 1:10-11
For there are many disobedient and talkers of vanity, and deceivers of minds, namely they of the circumcision,
James 1:21
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, all superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with meekness the word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your souls:
James 3:6
and the tongue is fire, and a world of wickedness. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth afire all that we have of nature, and is itself set afire, even of hell.