Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man spreads mischief, and will kindle a torch of deceit with mischiefs; and he separates friends.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
In Context
29A transgressor tries to ensnare friends, and leads them in ways that are not good.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was the most crafty of all the brutes on the earth, which the Lord God made, and the serpent said to the woman, Wherefore has God said, Eat not of every tree of the garden?
Proverbs 6:14His perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.
Proverbs 15:18a A man slow to anger will extinguish quarrels; but an ungodly man rather stirs them up.
Proverbs 17:17Have thou a friend for every time, and let brethren be useful in distress; for on this account are they born.
Proverbs 18:8Fear casts down the slothful; and the souls of the effeminate shall hunger.
Proverbs 29:22A furious man stirs up strife, and a passionate man digs up 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 →