Proverbs 16:27
But the perverse bears destruction upon his own mouth: a foolish man digs up evil for himself, and treasures fire on his own lips.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
In Context
26A man who labours, labours for himself, and drives from him his own ruin.
Cross References
2 Samuel 20:1And there was a transgressor so called there, and his name was Sabee, a Benjamite, the son of Bochori: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we any inheritance in the son of Jessæ: to thy tents, O Israel, every one.
Psalms 52:2The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that does good.
Proverbs 2:4and if thou shalt seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;
Proverbs 6:14His perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.
Proverbs 19:28He that becomes surety for a foolish child will despise the ordinance: and the mouth of ungodly men shall drink down judgments.
Habakkuk 2:13Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.
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 →