Proverbs 16:27
A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
In Context
26A worker’s appetite works for him because his hunger drives him onward.
28A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.
Cross References
2 Samuel 20:1Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”
Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
Proverbs 2:4if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,
Proverbs 6:14With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
Proverbs 19:28A corrupt witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.
Habakkuk 2:13Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
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 →