Proverbs 16:28
A contrary man sends forth contention, || A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
In Context
27A worthless man is preparing evil, || And on his lips [is] as a burning fire.
29A violent man entices his neighbor, || And causes him to go in a way [that is] not good.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1And the serpent has been cunning above every beast of the field which YHWH God has made, and he says to the woman, “Is it true that God has said, You do not eat from every tree of the garden?”
Proverbs 6:14Contrariness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, || He sends forth contentions.
Proverbs 15:18A man of fury stirs up contention, || And the slow to anger appeases strife.
Proverbs 17:17The friend is loving at all times, || And a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 18:8The words of a tale-bearer [are] as self-inflicted wounds, || And they have gone down [to] the inner parts of the heart.
Proverbs 29:22An angry man stirs up contention, || And a furious man is multiplying transgression.
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 →