Proverbs 16:27 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

A worthless person plots trouble, and his speech is like a burning fire.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

A worthless man deviseth mischief; And in his lips there is as a scorching fire.

BBE:

A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.

DBY:

A man of Belial diggeth up evil, and on his lips there is as a scorching fire.

ERV:

A worthless man deviseth mischief: and in his lips there is as a scorching fire.

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

YLT:

A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips -- as a burning fire.

Proverbs 16:27 Cross References

XREF:

Proverbs 6:12 A worthless person, a wicked man, Is the one who walks with a perverse mouth,

Proverbs 6:14 Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil, Who spreads strife.

James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

16:27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips [there is] as a {m} burning fire.
(m) For he consumes himself and others.

WES:

16:27 Diggeth up - Prosecutes his evil designs with great industry. His lips - His tongue is set on fire of hell.

MHC:

16:27,28. Ungodly men bestow more pains to do mischief than would be needful to do good. The whisperer separates friends: what a hateful, but how common a character! 29,30. Some do all the mischief they can by force and violence, and are blind to the result. 31. Old people especially should be found in the way of religion and godliness. 32. To overcome our own passions, requires more steady management, than obtaining victory over an enemy. 33. All the disposal of Providence concerning our affairs, we must look upon to be the determining what we referred to God; and we must be reconciled to them accordingly. Blessed are those that give themselves up to the will of God; for he knows what is good for them.

CONC:

Belial Burning Designer Devises Deviseth Diggeth Digs Evil Fire Good-for-nothing Lips Mischief Plots Preparing Scorching Speech Ungodly Worthless

Belial Burning Designer Devises Deviseth Diggeth Digs Evil Fire Good-For-Nothing Lips Mischief Plots Preparing Scorching Scoundrel Speech Ungodly Words Worthless

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