Proverbs 16:27
Worthless people plot evil and their words burn like fire.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
In Context
26A good appetite helps workers—hunger encourages them.
28Quarrelsome people cause conflict, and a gossip comes between the closest friends.
Cross References
2 Samuel 20:1A rabble-rouser called Sheba, son of Bichri, from the tribe of Benjamin, happened to be there. He blew the ram's horn and shouted: “We have no interest in David, no commitment to Jesse's son. Israelites, let's all go home!”
Psalms 52:2You plot to make people suffer; your words cut like a sharp razor, you liar!
Proverbs 2:4if you look for it as if it were silver and search for it as if it were hidden treasure;
Proverbs 6:14Their warped minds plot evil schemes; they're always causing trouble.
Proverbs 19:28A crooked witness makes a mockery of justice; and the wicked wolf down evil.
Habakkuk 2:13Hasn't the Lord Almighty decided that all the hard work of such nations is going to be burned up—that they wear themselves out for nothing?
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 →