Proverbs 16:27
The impious man digs up evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
In Context
26The soul of the laborer labors for himself, because his mouth has driven him to it.
28A perverse man stirs up lawsuits. And one who is verbose divides leaders.
Cross References
2 Samuel 20:1And it happened that there was, in that place, a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a man of Benjamin. And he sounded the trumpet, and he said: “There is no portion for us in David, nor any inheritance in the son of Jesse. Return to your own tents, O Israel.”
Psalms 52:2They were corrupted, and they became abominable with iniquities. There is no one who does good.
Proverbs 2:4if you will seek her like money, and dig for her as if for treasure,
Proverbs 6:14With a depraved heart he devises evil, and at all times he sows conflict.
Proverbs 19:28An unjust witness ridicules judgment. And the mouth of the impious devours iniquity.
Habakkuk 2:13Are not these things before the Lord of hosts? For the people will labor amid a great fire, and the nations will labor in emptiness, and they will fail.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:27
26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him. This is designed to engage us to diligence, and quicken us, what our hand finds to do, to do it with all our might, both in our worldly business and in the work of religion; for in the original it is, The soul that labours labours for itself. It is heart-work which is here intended, the labour of the soul, which is here recommended to us, 1. As that which will be absolutely needful. Our mouth is continually craving it of us; the… Read the whole commentary →