Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version A scoundrel plots evil, and on their lips it is like a scorching fire. New Living Translation Scoundrels create trouble; their words are a destructive blaze. English Standard Version A worthless man plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire. Berean Standard Bible A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire. King James Bible An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. New King James Version An ungodly man digs up evil, And it is on his lips like a burning fire. New American Standard Bible A worthless person digs up evil, While his words are like scorching fire. NASB 1995 A worthless man digs up evil, While his words are like scorching fire. NASB 1977 A worthless man digs up evil, While his words are as a scorching fire. Legacy Standard Bible A vile man digs up evil, And the words on his lips are like scorching fire. Amplified Bible A worthless man devises and digs up evil, And the words on his lips are like a scorching fire. Christian Standard Bible A worthless person digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire. Holman Christian Standard Bible A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire. American Standard Version A worthless man deviseth mischief; And in his lips there is as a scorching fire. Contemporary English Version Worthless people plan trouble. Even their words burn like a flaming fire. English Revised Version A worthless man deviseth mischief: and in his lips there is as a scorching fire. GOD'S WORD® Translation A worthless person plots trouble, and his speech is like a burning fire. Good News Translation Evil people look for ways to harm others; even their words burn with evil. International Standard Version A worthless person concocts evil gossip — his lips are like a burning fire. Majority Standard Bible A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire. NET Bible A wicked scoundrel digs up evil, and his slander is like a scorching fire. New Heart English Bible A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire. Webster's Bible Translation An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. World English Bible A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionA worthless man is preparing evil, "" And on his lips [is] as a burning fire. Young's Literal Translation A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips -- as a burning fire. Smith's Literal Translation A man of Belial dug up evil, and upon his lips, as a burning fire. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThe wicked man diggeth evil, and in his lips is a burning fire. Catholic Public Domain Version The impious man digs up evil, and in his lips is a burning fire. New American Bible Scoundrels are a furnace of evil, and their lips are like a scorching fire. New Revised Standard Version Scoundrels concoct evil, and their speech is like a scorching fire. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAn ungodly man devises evil; out of his mouth issues a burning fire. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated An evil man forges evil and fire burns from his mouth. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917An ungodly man diggeth up evil, And in his lips there is as a burning fire. Brenton Septuagint Translation But the perverse bears destruction upon his own mouth: a foolish man digs up evil for himself, and treasures fire on his own lips. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Reply of the Tongue is from the LORD…26A worker’s appetite works for him because his hunger drives him onward. 27A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire. 28A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.… Cross References James 3:6 The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. Matthew 12:34-37 You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. / The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure. / But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. ... Ephesians 4:29 Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen. James 1:26 If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless. Romans 3:13-14 “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.” / “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” Psalm 52:2-4 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. / You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah / You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue. Proverbs 6:12-15 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth, / winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers. / With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord. ... Proverbs 10:18 The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool. Proverbs 11:9 With his mouth the ungodly man destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous are rescued. Proverbs 12:18 Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. Proverbs 15:28 The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked blurts out evil. Proverbs 26:20-21 Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases. / Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. Proverbs 26:23-28 Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart. / A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart. / When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart. ... Isaiah 59:3-4 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice. / No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity. Jeremiah 9:3-8 “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD. / “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander. / Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity. ... Treasury of Scripture An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. an ungodly man a man of Belial 1 Samuel 25:17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him. 2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel. diggeth Proverbs 2:4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Psalm 17:14,15 From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes… Isaiah 5:18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: in Psalm 52:2-4 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully… Psalm 57:4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. Jump to Previous Belial Burning Designer Devises Deviseth Diggeth Digs Evil Fire Good-For-Nothing Lips Mischief Plots Preparing Scorching Scoundrel Speech Ungodly Words WorthlessJump to Next Belial Burning Designer Devises Deviseth Diggeth Digs Evil Fire Good-For-Nothing Lips Mischief Plots Preparing Scorching Scoundrel Speech Ungodly Words WorthlessProverbs 16 1. The Plans of the heartA worthless man The phrase "a worthless man" in Proverbs 16:27 refers to an individual who lacks moral integrity and purpose. The Hebrew word used here is "בְּלִיַּעַל" (belial), which often denotes someone who is wicked or without value. In the context of ancient Israel, such a person would be seen as a threat to the community's moral and spiritual health. The term "worthless" suggests a life that is not aligned with God's purposes, lacking the fruitfulness and righteousness that God desires for His people. This serves as a warning to avoid the path of moral decay and to seek a life of purpose and godliness. digs up evil his speech is like a scorching fire In his lips there is as a burning fire.--"Set on fire of hell" (James 3:6). Verse 27. - This and the three following verses are concerned with the case of the evil man. An ungodly man - a man of Belial - diggeth up evil. A man of Belial (Proverbs 6:12) is a worthless, wicked person, what the French call a vaurien. Such a one digs a pit for others (Proverbs 26:27; Psalm 7:15), devises mischief against his neighbour, plots against him by lying and slandering and overreaching. Wordsworth confines the evil to the man himself; he digs it as treasure in a mine, loves wickedness for its own sake. But analogy is against this interpretation. Septuagint, "A foolish man diggeth evils for himself." So Ecclus. 27:26, "Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; and he that setteth a trap shall be taken therein." As the gnome says -Ἡ δὲ κακὴ βουλὴ τῷ βουλεύσαντι κακίστη. And in his lips there is as a burning fire (Proverbs 26:23) His words scorch and injure like a devouring flame. James 3:6, "The tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell." Septuagint, "And upon his lips he treasureth up fire." Hebrew A worthlessבְּ֭לִיַּעַל (bə·lî·ya·‘al) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1100: Without profit, worthlessness, destruction, wickedness man אִ֣ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person digs up כֹּרֶ֣ה (kō·reh) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 3738: To dig, to plot, to bore, open evil, רָעָ֑ה (rā·‘āh) Adjective - feminine singular Strong's 7451: Bad, evil and his speech שְׂ֝פָת֗וֹ (p̄ā·ṯōw) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 8193: The lip, language, a margin is like a scorching צָרָֽבֶת׃ (ṣā·rā·ḇeṯ) Adjective - feminine singular Strong's 6867: Scab, scar (of a sore) fire. כְּאֵ֣שׁ (kə·’êš) Preposition-k | Noun - common singular Strong's 784: A fire Links Proverbs 16:27 NIVProverbs 16:27 NLT Proverbs 16:27 ESV Proverbs 16:27 NASB Proverbs 16:27 KJV Proverbs 16:27 BibleApps.com Proverbs 16:27 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 16:27 Chinese Bible Proverbs 16:27 French Bible Proverbs 16:27 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 16:27 A worthless man devises mischief (Prov. 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