Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man stirs up lawsuits. And one who is verbose divides leaders.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
In Context
27The impious man digs up evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.
29A man of iniquity entices his friend, and he leads him along a way that is not good.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1However, the serpent was more crafty than any of the creatures of the earth that the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Why has God instructed you, that you should not eat from every tree of Paradise?”
Proverbs 6:14With a depraved heart he devises evil, and at all times he sows conflict.
Proverbs 15:18A short-tempered man provokes conflicts. Whoever is patient tempers those who are stirred up.
Proverbs 17:17Whoever is a friend loves at all times. And a brother is proved by distress.
Proverbs 18:8The words of the double-tongued seem simple. And they reach even to the interior of the gut. Fear casts down the lazy, but the souls of the effeminate shall go hungry.
Proverbs 29:22A short-tempered man provokes quarrels. And whoever is easily angered is more likely to sin.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:28-29
27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. 28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. There are those that are not only vicious themselves, but spiteful and mischievous to others, and they are the worst of men; two sorts of such are here described:—1. Such as envy a man the honour of his good name, and do all they can to blast that by calumnies and misrepresentations: They dig up evil; they take a great deal of pains to find out something or other… Read the whole commentary →